It was soo hard to wake up this morning and follow the schedule. I had big problems wakening up and especially after taking shower to go out and do our UWP day. I felt so tired and it’s not surprising to feel like that after only 5 hours of sleeping after week full of similar kind of days when we were sleeping so less.
But when we came to Hindu temple after our morning meeting it was just amazing and inspiring. I have never seen such amazing art of architecture. It is quite new temple and they made it from Turkish and Italian marble stone from more than thousands and thousands of small pieces all together. Numbers for building this temple are amazing. There were more than 900 volunteers working on this temple and result is just amazing.
We weren’t allowed taking photos inside so I just have outside pictures but I can suggest to everyone to go to visit Hindu temple.
First we had short video about temple and after that we visited secret room where all gods were situated and where people went praying. Architecture was just amazing. I’m still impressed what human hands can do from stones. Wow! We were also part of special Hindu blessing ritual. They separated men and woman and after praying to god they brought candles all around us and we got blessing from candle lights from gods.
After little sightseeing of temple and Hindu ritual, we finally went to do our CI. We were split in 3 groups and I was working in group where we were helping to clean new built room which is going to be kitchen in future. It is huge hale for more than 6000 people. It was pretty dusty but I enjoyed it much as I had chance to talk and learn more from people who worked in temple about religion and temple.
Did you know that Hindu people celebrate New Year on November 10th? And it is a huge holiday and celebration. For example, they expect more than 12000 people coming to temple for New Year’s.
After lunch we come back to our basic facility and we had cast meeting where we discussed about different things like finances, surveys we recently made and just casual cast stuff.
Evening we spend with out host family in park cinema. This is such an American thing and I really felt great about doing something typical Americal. I mean, it is almost end of October and we were sitting in the middle of the park in our summer clothes and having a little picnic with one more host family and watching movie. It was “Night at museum” on schedule and it was really fun to watch it. It become a little bit freezing as movie was getting to an end but we survived and I felt really great about it.
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