3G 4G

This week all of the year 7’s and 8’s went on a trip, We were heading into riccarton to go to the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist  temple for an event that happens every year “3G 4G’ “3G 4G” is a festival that celebrates buddhist religion. Every year we go there and learn what it is and how to show it. One of the thirst things we learnt there was what  3G and 4G mean. 3G means to, do good deeds, say good words, and think good thoughts 4G means to give joy, give hope, give convenience and confidence then we went upstairs and went into their library It was a pretty small library but it had a lot of big books some of the books had meanings but I couldn't tell what they meant because all of the books were written in Chinese. Another activity we done was “bathing the buddha” we got in four lines waiting to be next what we had to do was there was a buddha sitting in water we had to get some of the water and tip it over his shoulder and say do good deeds then we got another cup of water and poured it over his head and say think good thoughts te we got one more cup of water and poured it over the shoulder again and then we had to wish something because in buddhist religion if you bath the buddha you can wish for something and it would come true. We also did some other activities like making lotus flowers, meditation and a lot more but overall it was a really fun to learn about the buddhist religion and just to be with friends.