Yesterday we went to the main street of Malaysia. It is the oldest main street with a bank, the old post office and etc. Every building was very pretty, decorated and with three stories. One little shop stood small next to the others, very dull and with one story. I wasn't quite sure why that was the case until I was told that the man who wanted to build this needed permission from the other store owners on the street. Their buildings weren't so easy on the man. They told him that the only way that he could build his store was that it was to be half the size of theirs and colorless. So thats just what he did and the shop is still here with the same man is there now. Right next to the street was the mosque. It wasl built on rectangular land because this means that it is more important unlike triangular land. If something is built on triangular land would mean the place is less important. There were a lot of geometric shapes around the mosque and it was less open. Less open meaning we needed to where cloths around our hair (the girls) and we couldn't come into the praying area of the mosque unless we were muslim ourselves. It was so beautiful and there seemed to be stars around.
Later we went to the hindu temple. This was very different from the mosque. Along the walls were glass boxes containing the different statues of gods. It was very welcoming and interesting. On our way to the chinese (buddhist) temples we saw a lot of shops that had flowers on their necklaces. Once we walked into the buddhist temple the incesse was very strong incense smell was everywhere. People were getting lighting sticks. After lighting it you blow it out and stick it into a pot of powder. It was very cool and my group really enjoyed it! We went to two of them but the second was a bit different. We got our fortune told, mine wasn't so well! After, we ate lunch and went shopping in China Town. It was a great field trip and it taught me a lot
