At 8.30 we could finally start showing "Journey to the West" - a very popular and very funny Chinese TV-series, based on the cultivation story of the Monkey King, who is also briefly mentioned in Zhuan Falun. There was still no light around--our projector was powered by a small gas generator. I looked at all the faces and thought I rarely had seen Chinese laughing like this. The adults and children were enjoying themselves.
I thought this would be a good story for the media, who were looking for great pictures from the blackout. At around nine o'clock I called a practitioner to ask him to call a few newspapers. As soon as I had him on the line the lights in Chinatown went back on! Immediately, our whole audience started cheering. Chinatown had been without electricity for 29 hours. I told the person on the phone "Never mind--the lights just came back on!"
Understandably, many Chinese went back home and we concluded the show and our short Falun Dafa films at around 10.30 with a smaller audience. One of the Westerners who organises the film shows told me recently "I don't feel like it's us (practitioners) and them (the Chinese) any more. When I go to Chinatown I feel like I'm seeing my friends." I agreed and felt very fortunate that we were in Chinatown with hundreds of our friends during this historical blackout.
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