Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Religion ned social structure

Nameste!

Our first monday here in Kathmandu is now coming to an end and what a day..
It started out with a weeding. Just across the road the groom was preparing himself for mariage. An orchestra was playing , the weeding car was decorated with flowers, more people kept shopping up and the woman were all in beuatiful dresses. Especially the girls who all looked like little princesses. They invited us all into the house so that we could see and meet the groom and there we got our first red dot in the forehead or an tilaka which represents the third eye and is a mixture of this red powder, yoghurt, grains and rice.

After that we went back to the platform to have our first class with Jinita. Today the overall theme was religion and social structure of South Asia. We concentrated on 4 religions: hinduism, buddhism, Islam and Christianity which was really interesting cause eventhough we all new about the religions, Jinita had so much more to tell.

Tonight we had a social night with the global changers who also lives here on the platform were we where divided into groups after our nationality and each group then had to make a short presentation of one of the other countries. It was a night with singing, dancing, funny games, smiling faces and more dancing.

Tank you all for a wonderful day!

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