Two South African friends who teach at a nearby school invited me
and another American for a weekend. In order to give their students
a chance to “experience real Americans” we had a “Western
party” with dances ranging from the Virginia Reel to Brittany
Spears.
Here I am signing autographs at a middle school.
My South African friend Jody and the owners of a noodle shop who
have befriended him. They are Chinese but from a Muslim minority
group.
Horie, a Japanese teacher, playing the recorder at Christmas.
(Right) Three of us “foreigners”
sang Silent Night at the Christmas Eve performance.
(Left) Church on Christmas Eve in China is not a traditional
worship service, but rather a performance aimed at the non-Christians
who pile into the church at such a rate that there are tickets
and police at the doors who turn people away. This is Pastor Xia.