Looking over all that we are going to study in this class is exciting for me. I signed up for this class last semester because I knew I was going to India over the summer, and I thought it would be fun to learn even more about India after I came home! One thing I am excited for is to read more stories about the epics. Indians love (and I mean extremely love) to tell stories and to hear them. This is one thing I learned while there. They would love to tell me stories about their culture and their Hindu gods. I had never heard anything about it before so it was so interesting to me! I learned so much just by experiencing their culture for 6 weeks, it would be so incredible to go their for longer!
This is a picture I took while at a temple in Pune, India.
In the top window are statues of some gods they worship.
One thing I am really excited to learn about the new gods I will read about is what they mean to the Indians. While there, when they were telling stories about their gods, they kept telling me what they pray to those gods for. "We pray to Ganesh for protection" etc. they would tell me. It was super interesting getting to learn about a new culture and I am excited to dive deeper.
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