DIWALI
Back in Fiji we celebrated Diwali - the Festival Of Lights. Diwali is celebrated in November. It is an important church event in the Hindu Calender.
The festival occurs on a no-moon night. It celebrates the birth of Lakshmi, goddess of Wealth. There are plenty of fireworks and lights! It is a time to celebrate with you, your family and friends.
We eat a lot of homemade sweets. My Hindu families decorate their house with lights and cook vegetarian food and sweets to offer to their Gods. It usually takes one to two weeks to clean up their houses and compounds for this important feast table. On the eve of Diwali they put food and sweets in front of their God and they pray and sing and on the candles around the compound. About 7pm they invite their Fijian families/friends to come and play with firecrackers and enjoy the sweets.
In Fiji we look forword to Diwali because we get to play freely with firecrackers and enjoy the free expensive Indian sweets.
Hi George Gabriel its Ahi from ahipara school. I really liked your celebration that you have in Fiji it sounds very cool, what you guys do maybe next you could use spaces in your writing blog ya later.
ReplyDeleteKia ora George, Ken here from Ahipara school. I liked your post a lotits cool you have a festvial like that. The sweets sound very yum! Maybe next time you could add some images, Ka pai, Keep up the good mahi. Ken
ReplyDeleteHi George, I'm Tillie from Ahipara school. I love your blog post about Fiji. It was cool to learn about the celebration that you do in Fiji.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work, bye.