(Joy's comments in parenthesis)
On March 20th, we went on a school field
trip to Mbengwi Monastery. It was
exciting and we learned a lot. It took a lot of sport (exercise----walking all
over the grounds). But it was worth it.
We learned that a Monastery is a place where monks
live where they can pray and work. There are no women there. They have to live at a convent. The men pray
six times a day as a group and many hours alone. When monks aren’t praying,
they are farming, raising cows for dairy products and creating medicine from
herbs. They also raise pigs, make honey and candles. (We buy our yogurt from them as they have a
small shop in Bamenda. We heard they
make cheese too, but it was not mentioned on the tour. Unfortunately the honey
was not for sale there or I would have bought several for gifts.)
We got to walk down a stony path to a fish pond. Primary 5 and 6 got to feed the fish some
bread. We also saw how they pumped up fresh stream water to the Monastery.
After our walk and tour, we got to eat and drinks
and take some pictures. We were disappointed that we did not get to see how
things were made just heard about it.
(The field trip was nice for Pete and I to go on,
though a bit hot. It was disappointing that
the tour wasn’t better. I would have loved to have actually seen how
the honey and the candles were made. Perhaps next year we will go back on our
own and get a private tour.)
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