hello and welcome to the edges of earth, my name is brock. today i'm with a man
from the neighborhood that i'm in. his name is Kal... his name is really big,
but i cannot say it. so i'll call him Kal. so today we are in your hometown? your village? yeah.
amazing. so there's a big party here today. he invited me to hang out for the whole day.
i don't even know what the party is about, yet. hopefully i will learn as time goes on.
anyway, so i guess let's let's party. so within about 20 seconds of exiting the car, a man invited
me to his house behind me. right here. he's here. and so we're going to go into his house.
so i entered the area where they're cooking, and they have these massive pots full of food.
it's very interesting. they're cooking with an open fire. i don't even know what it is,
but i do know one. one is biryani, yeah? biryani. yeah one is biryani. i love
biryani. i've ate it many times in india. so, i'm excited to try the the food this afternoon.
there's a police officer in this area stationed here for the celebration. and i asked him what
is the purpose of the festival, and he says it's kind of related to farming. every 6 months they
have this celebration. everybody gets together and dances. for i guess, celebrating farmers.
celebrating farming. crops. something related to farm work and crops. and he has a name that
i cannot pronounce. what is your name? Vara Guna Pandiyan. "Vana Kuna Bundian?" VGP.
i just call him "V"! This festival is the Mariamman temple. the god of lady. every year,
once we celebrate the function. actually this god is a raining god. you know raining?
raining god. rain means "mari". so Muthumariamman. from other places they are coming to here.
they brought me.. coffee or tea? tea. Coffee. Coffee. It's tea-coffee. Coffee. Coffee.
wow, very hot.
very hot.
we were just communicating to each other a moment ago.
Hi.
"Brother, are you fine?"
i can hear a couple english words every once in a while. but..um. so i took
out my phone and then we could communicate to each other, which brought a lot of smiles.
i noticed that after they started playing music and doing the rain dance, we
actually have a couple clouds in the sky that are forming and getting closer. so maybe it's working.
so far this place is quite interesting. they've done multiple dances around this temple, in fact.
and they did a bit of singing as well...playing instruments. and i think it's working because i
don't know if you can hear it... it's.. i can.. i can hear thunder right now, and we might even see
a couple drops of rain. the sky is turning gray. clouds are coming. the wind is picking up.
so, the dances might be working. in addition, everyone seems to be so kind and so friendly,
and hospitable. everyone wants to give me tea. everyone wants to give me biscuits or rice..
and invite me into their house. people are very very kind here. it's just a fun experience.
and everyone's trying to speak tamil to me. but unfortunately i can't understand. and the kids want
me to go fly the drone again, but i'm not sure if i can, because it's... i don't know it's pretty windy.
thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you.
you will be in the video, say 'hello'.
i just felt rain. did you feel rain?
it's either that, or a bird just shit on my face. i don't know. hopefully it was rain.
so, the music is working because now it's raining.
so we made a mad dash for the car. it started to rain really hard
and, so now, i think we're gonna hang out in the car for a moment. right when
they were trying to serve the food it started to downpour and they're trying to prevent the rain
water from going into the food. it's a really.. it's a really difficult scenario right now.
they were kind enough to bring the meal to us
in the car. i think we're still waiting on his meal. so we have chicken biryani, yeah?
shockingly enough... what month is this this? this is the first time that i will be eating meat in about
10 months, and i'm not kidding. it's not that i'm vegetarian or anything with the exception
of omelets. i've been eating omelets every day. so if you count that as meat, then whatever.
this is very good. okay? how do you say very good in Tamil?
Suvai...
Suvair...Suvaiargay...Suvai-ar-guy..?
Suvaiargay. That's ok?
Suvaiargay..
how is my Tamil? i'm gonna have to try the rice, also.
so if you're watching this from a different country, it's very normal to eat with your hands.
in fact, i don't even have a fork or anything it's just a normal thing to do.
mmm, that's really good.
there's like a 5-second delay.
and then all of the spiciness comes. oh yeah. It's a good thing we got water. so my friend
just got out to go get his meal. his english is very limited, which is fine. we can use google
translate, and everything's okay. but it's very fun because, for those of you who don't know, i've been
studying hindi. he actually worked somewhere in the past where he needed to learn hindi.
and so he actually speaks quite a bit of hindi. so when i speak an english sentence to him,
and he does not understand, i then try to speak it in hindi.. and then he understands..which is
really cool for me. because this is the first time i'm really learning a second language.
to be honest, this process has been overwhelming in the beginning but now it's becoming quite
easy because i understand, kind of, the grammar. for those of you who are interested in learning
a second language before you start traveling the world.. oh my god, there's one company that
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i'm down to my last piece of chicken.
this meal was amazing. it was so good. i've had a lot of biryani.. chicken biryani over the last
year and a half, and this one is right at the top of my list. this was very good. it's not too spicy.
sometimes it's so spicy that i can barely breathe when i'm eating. but this one this one's good.
by the way, i think my plate is made out of a tree!
so i had to wait in the car for a long time, until it stopped raining.
everybody had to take food and eat in their house. i just learned that
today people gave a lot of offerings to the god and so i think they take all of
the offerings and go to a nearby river or lake or pond, and then throw everything in the water.
oh, so much mud. i just stepped in so much mud!
that's awesome. so, like we said before, everybody is carrying the offerings to god.
and we're going to walk 1 kilometer, until we find water. and apparently that's
where they dump a lot of this stuff in. but we have chosen to drive instead of walk.
so after about 45 minutes, we arrived at the water. everybody's lined up on the street
and they're dancing again. and i guess just in a few moments
is when they're going to go to that small pond and throw the offerings into the water.
so today was fun. you basically taught me how your culture...
uh, i don't know. your culture is very different than my culture. did you enjoy? Enjoy!
did you enjoy? yeah? enjoy! today was totally amazing. such a long day, but totally worth every second!
i met a lot of cool people. very interesting. i don't know. it's very interesting to meet new
people in a different different part of the world. hope you all enjoyed these festivities like i did.
thank you all for watching, and remember, your time is running out...start living! take care.