Today I woke up at 5:40am to go to a temple and give food to the monks as offerings.
Sophia, Becca, Tiffany, and I were the only ones who accompanied OLeang to see the monks. On our way there we stopped at a shop where we got freshly made rice soup.
(Tired much from last night?)
We got to the temple, took our shoes off and walked to the front where we kneeled. It is the rule that you never have your feet facing the Buddha or monks because they consider the feet to be the dirtiest part of the body so no matter how you sit the feet must always be facing back or to the side.
We put the food for the monks in the special containers they have, we thought about our family and friends and then a monk gave us his blessings and did some kind of chanting in Balinese.
It was a very nice and spiritual start of the year.
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