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not good news

i probably should have posted this the other day. But i’ve been slow when it comes to the internet lately. sorry mom, will work on an email soon.
The region and tribe that my wife comes from was attacked by a rival tribe just a little over a week ago. Some really horrible [...]

Toys, Goats and Sickness

This is a picture of one of my nephews holding a toy he had created that day.  It looked liked it would provide hours of fun if it didn’t fall apart.  All it is is a stick, plastic bottle, plastic lid and piece of twine.  He put a very small hole in the side of [...]

80,000

Juba. this place is a little bit crazy.
i think it is my third week into the job. still not very excited bout it. For the past two weeks I have been driving around this town in a small pickup without any A/C. I have a serious case of farmers tan [...]

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for my momma:)

Nimre Talata Show

Here is a video from the show we did last weekend. It was lots of fun. I got to be the “sound engineer” and don’t think I did a very good job. Have the feeling i may have blown my speakers in the process. This is also why my video isn’t [...]

photos!

These are a couple pictures from Mary’s performance last friday. I am working on uploading a short video of her and some other performers from the show, but my connection is really bad and I’ve spent the last few hours waiting for it to finish. Will post a link as soon as it [...]

jonglei update

It has been a week now and things have gone really quiet. A few days after the incident in Bor, leaders from Murle, Dinka along with government officials including Riak Machar met in Bor. We don’t know the results from that meeting or what actions are to take place next. There [...]

death in jonglei

On Thursday we got news from contacts in Sudan that Dinka were attacking and killing Murle in Bor town. It was apparently in retaliation to an attack that had happened the day before. Our initial report indicated that Dinka had attacked and killed at least nine Murle. The attacks [...]