Traditions

= The first is the most common it is called Poya Day. Poya day is a Buddhist public holiday that occurs every month when the full moon comes out. Usually on poya you go to Buddhist temple and worship the Budda aswell as do meditation. In my family the main food we eat is Kockis. ==== = The second of my main traditions is the blessing in which a Buddhist priest ties a special white string around our hand called Pirith in which it blesses us and protects us. After the the Pirith is put on the Buddhist priest says prays and everyone else has to follow. The pray is called Buddang Saranung Gatchami. We can only take the string off after 7 days and when we take it off we have to break it instead of cutting it off with a scissor =