Tonight Wakana came home and announced she'd been invited to someone's home for a gathering in support of Japan. We mounted up and arrived in time for a Baha'i prayer meeting.

Another new experience. I have been in Baptist churches and Catholic churches, I've seen Unitarians gathered in... whatever they do. But this was my first experience with Baha'i.

They started with music on the stereo, then we read prayers from sheets given to us when we entered and ended with more (kind of middle eastern) music. A couple of people read from a prayer book and one woman sang something that might have been in Arabic. It sounded pretty good.

Afterward we ate and drank the refreshments and talked. The group was mostly European-Americans (you know, white people). There were only two Japanese in the group but some of the European-Americans had lived in Japan and loved the country and culture. It was fun and new.