I wake up again at 5:30 am. Went to wash my face, then trying to get my outfit on without messing up. It takes a while to "Suit up" in monk uniform. Morning prayer you have to wear everything. I walk to the temple and one of the elder monks invite me to do walking meditation before going in. We circled around the temple about three times as he explains how I should breathe in thinking "Poot" and breathe out thinking "Toh". Then we went in and started morning chants. The hardest part about morning and evening chants is the position i have to stay in. I am not able to do it cause it hurts the front of my legs and most of the time my legs go numb or start to hurt. So I have to move around a lot. I was able to chant more than the first evening and was able to sort of catch up to the other monks pace.
After morning chants, I had breakfast with the other monks. The person gave me kao tom pla (Fish Rice Porridge). I then listened to the two elder monks talk to each other about how to teach other people and then it turned into a boasting competition. I then went to my room and messaged Juntra. She finally replied back and my worries started to go away slowly. We talked and everything felt better. I found out that we had the same feeling in our chest without talking to each other. I went to eat and there were a lot of people. the offering of food took forever. The monks and I had only little time to eat before the time reached 12. While walking back the mentor monk asked me if I have started cleaning yet. So this was the first time I started cleaning at the temple. I sweep the leaves and things around our dwelling area with another monk. then the other teacher monk asked us to throw away the dead branches and leaves that he cut off the tree. The branches and leaves were hard and cut me alot
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