From Sunday to Wednesday grade 9 and 10 went on a field trip to Hei Shui. We learned about buddhism and tibetan culture, and typical customs for tibetan persons, In Tibet there is a lot of different cultures unlike Chengdu. We visited a tibetan house, where culture was one of the main things that the population wanted to pass through, they respect their culture a lot and most of things are about culture in their life.

The culture influence a lot their life, in the small village the people danse all every evening they are happy to be together and it makes me happy to see that in some cultures people are having fun together. We tried to learn the dances but it was difficult. We tasted the tibetan food, it was good but spicy.

The villages are really small so I think that everybody knows everybody. I think that it’s more convivial when people know each other.In they culture, people do their best to get a good education, they work hard for their family or their village.

Their believe in spiritual development and meditation. They think that the main elements are in the following order: blue symbolizes the sky (space), white symbolizes the air (wind) , red symbolizes the fire, green symbolizes the water and yellow symbolizes the earth. They hang prayer flags of these five colors everywhere in the nature or in the village to give peace, health, strength, wisdom and harmony  to everything and everybody. They should be treated with respect and they shouldn’t be on the ground or on clothes.

We visited a monastery, we had explanation on everything that was in or around it. We also looked at monks and one showed us how to use stuffs in the monastery and what to do when you are in it. It was a really good experience.

This trip was interesting and intriguing, we learned a lot but it was still funny.