1. Describe the trip
Our 7th grade field trip was very interesting and fun. We went to the China Town area of Kuala Lumpur, to look at the different religions of Malaysia. We went to a Buddhist temple, a Hindu temple, and a Muslim temple. We took pictures and notes about these temples. All of them were very interesting, and I learned a lot from all of them.
2. What did you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste?
I saw a lot of statues, incense, rituals, spiritual people and different believe systems. The area and the location where these temples are placed have different smells because of the suage water near by. The sounds were different on all of them because of the different ways of worshiping. The Muslim mosque had loud speakers playing a prayer or a worship to Allah. I thought that was very interesting.
3. What were the common values that you saw between the religions?
All of these temples had a great amount of spiritual feeling in them. They all had their own interesting way of teaching and worshiping. I saw that the mosque and the Hindu temple had a lot of patterns in their temples. The Hindu and the Buddhist religions both pray to statues, have lots of candles and burn incense involved which their religious practices.
