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My Visitation to a Buddhist Temple

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On the day of Sunday, February 21, 2015, my boyfriend and I were invited to join our friend Megan Truong and her family to the Buddhist Temple to celebrate Tet Festival. Tet Festival is the biggest annual celebration of Vietnam in the first days of Lunar New Year. During these days, people welcome a new coming year with good health, lucks and success. The holiday is very special for Vietnamese families to reunite and celebrate together. This is the time for family reunion, for festivals, and for people to give love to their loved one. It was six thirty at night when my friend Megan called me to go over to her house. When my boyfriend and I got there, my friend Megan and the kids were dressed in their traditional clothing. This traditional clothing is called, “áo dài”, the áo dài is a Vietnamese national costume, now most commonly worn by women. It is a tight-fitting silk tunic worn over pants. Áo classifies the item as a piece of clothing on the upper part of the body. Dài means "long". My friend Megan said I should try one of her áo dài so we could all go to the temple dressed up. She gave me a two pieced clothing colored in baby pink. As I try on the dressed, it was very comfortable and easy to put on, it was silky and see through. While everyone was waiting for me to come out of the bathroom, I looked at myself at the mirror and I thought to myself, “oh I look pretty good.” So I come out of the bathroom, everyone said I looked pretty in an áo dài, and that i could look like a Vietnamese girl. After that we took a lot of photos. It was seven thirty at night, it was time to leave the house. My boyfriend and I drove ourselves and follow our friends car on the way to the temple. When we got to the parking there were no space to park because there were a lot of cars. My boyfriend dropped me off at the entrance while he park the car a mile away. While we were walking together, I looked at the temple named it is called, Nhu lai thien tu temple.” Outside the temple there was a sign that says, “hoi cho tet,

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