South Africa report # 8

Mother Day in Africa is also a big deal. I went to Africa church and there all but me were black which is ok. One of the things that know must know about Churches in Africa is that when they greet each other they kiss (when I say kiss I mean on the lips) with a big chmok. It does not matter if you are women or men they just kiss each other. If you are a stranger they would greet you with a hand shake (works for me). But not on mother’s day. Speaker says something in Afrikaans and I do not know what. All of a sudden everybody in the congregation gets up and starts to kiss each other. So I am up and I realize that I am being kissed by all the women in the congregation. They would just grab me and chmok me on the lips. I wish you could see that. Me poor Foreign_guy trying to figure out what is going on and why is everybody kissing and why me and when is that going to stop. Later I found out that speaker said that we should congratulate woman with this special day. And woman should congratulate children. I was trying to figure out was I kissed as a mother, or as a son or did they just used the opportunity to kiss me because I had no clue what was going on.
Needles to say that I was kissed for at least a dozen big mamas.
What is ironic in all this is that I hold a non kissing principle before engagement. My girlfriend never got a kiss but all there mammas from African church did. Life is funny that way isn’t it?
You can see on the picture some of those lucky women.