I think it was fun how we worked on expressions last class! I did not know there were so many specific actions that would be made to express an emotion. It was also fun to see how it actually worked! You could really see the emotion of your partner. Sometimes it was hard to keep a straight face and not say anything because some of the movements and expressions we made seemed strange and funny, but also because we are not used to showing silent emotions. We are so used to using vocal sounds to accompany our emotional expressions that it was hard not to.

I would also like to comment on the class before last class when we got to try on the costumes and told the Ramayana in our sub banjars. It seemed more authentic when we wore the costumes. It was a different feeling and I felt like there was a different atmosphere in the classroom all together. The storytelling went fairly well. There was quite a big jumping back and forth in the story because some people would break in and continue the story and others would have more information that should fit in between when the two others were talking about. This made it a little confusing, but after a while we figured it out and the story a had a pretty good flow in the end.

After telling the story we had extra time so ended up taking about Hindu gods and traditions. It was interesting to hear some of the background information and understand more of the full complexity of the religion. I think it is neat how there are so many gods in one religion that people pray to for different reasons.