My Favorite Teacher

A Missionary Life:
Rev. J. Wesley Day
China, Malaysia, Indonesia

Sidetrip: My Favorite Teacher

Flora Darrow was a teacher but she was not my teacher. She was my favorite teacher because we walked to school together and played tag on the way to school. As time went on we found different ways to tag each other. We tagged by correspondence. She lived with Miss Ethel Hempstead and her mother. Both Ethel and Flora became missionary teachers in Japan in different denominations. Flora was from the Reformed Church and Ethel from the Methodist. On one occasion I visited with Flora Darrow in Japan. I planned to spend three weeks and stayed 3 more weeks of my vacation in Japan. This was in 1935 and I was still single. I corresponded with Flora for a few years after that. Flora Darrow's and my game of tag lasted some thirty years.