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You Gotta Put One Foot in Front of the Other

The kids just randomly start singing “You Gotta Put One Foot in Front of the Other,” throughout the day. It’s quite cute.

I’m often hot but starting to just kind of get used to it; I’m doing fine but really miss my veggies! We have rice and beans, two or three times a day! 

It’s quite delightful learning more Nuer phrases, and people have begun saying hi to me by name as I walk back-and-forth from my hut at our UN compound. 

Every evening, the kids put the chairs in a circle in the open compound and we read a little bit from that book I wrote about their community, Khan’s Moon. My daughter, Jenneca did the final editing and had it printed for us! No one here has ever heard a story written about their own community, and there are even people some of them know in the story! 

Today we also Joined in the weekly Peace Academy, had a blast doing fractions, Did a school textbook inventory (there are approximately 16 textbooks in the whole School), and are working on the verb To Be.