We began our Christmas break on December 19 by going to a Candlelight Christmas Carol Sing-along in the park... at Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. Kirstenbosch is a beautiful botanical garden/park with a huge amphitheatre where they have picnic concerts every Sunday in the summer. Another annual tradition is this concert, which consists of thousands of people enjoying picnics in the park, and then, when darkness begins to fall, lighting their individual candles (in white paper bags to look like luminaries) and singing Christmas Carols and hearing the Christmas story. It's not advertised as a Christian event (it's put on by Rotary International) but all the songs are traditional Christian Carols and the whole Christmas story is told straight from the Bible (interspersed with appropriate songs). At the end, a pastor from one of the churches in Cape Town gives a short, evangelical message and then the evening is ended with "Silent Night." We went with several of our students and enjoyed a magical evening celebrating the birth of Jesus.
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