This First Person article is the experience of Chris Jaworski, a Canadian living in South Africa. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
One look inside the shopping mall will tell you: Santa’s coming to town.
Plastic icicles replete with LED lights sparkle from the ceiling, fir trees with baubles bedecking every corner, and shops going into festive overdrive, tempting shoppers with incredible yuletide sales. The holidays are truly upon us!
But when I go outside, the sun beats down relentlessly in 30 C heat. Like the last five Decembers, I’m in Johannesburg, South Africa — a
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