In this blog post I am going to teach you all about Balinese life. I know all about it because I was there for two weeks.
Balinese life is probably very different then your use to. Every day they put a offering out for their gods. Every thing that they eat or drink they take a little bit out and give to their gods. Sometimes you will see men wearing udan which is something they wear on their head. If they are wearing a lighter colored one that means they are going to be in a ceremony. If they are wearing a darker colored one that means their friend is going to be one in a ceremony. One kind of ceremony is a funeral. At the funeral they burn the body because their sole is gone. One other thing is that they believe in reincarnation.
Almost every Balinese family owns a rice field. After the harvest you might think they try to sell the rice but what they actually do is eat it. They eat lunch for every meal and the amount they harvest lasts about four months. One thing I find very interesting is that in each family compound is a temple and in each village there are three temples and in all of Bali there are nine main holy temples. One other thing most Balinese families have is a dog. In the daytime the dogs run off and play and when it starts to get dark they run home. And last but not least almost every Balinese family has a moped. The most people that I saw on one moped was five.
I hope you learned a lot about Balinese life and enjoyed reading this blog post.
Hi Maggie,
ReplyDeleteOnce again I enjoyed your blog post. You are really seeing some very interesting things that most people never get to see. Are the Balinese dogs all different sorts like American dogs, or are there a couple of types that you see over and over? Big dogs or smaller dogs? I hope you had a Happy Halloween. I was sitting with Lucy Vosburg and her Grandma at the Kingston cafe yesterday and showed her the pictures of you with Ella and Mrs. Taylor in Beijing and she was very interested. Bye for now.