Saturday, November 27, 2010

A Day of Rest in a City of Action

Although it is Saturday in Sudan, it is the second day of their weekend with Friday being their religious day of worship and the streets are much quieter than an average weekday. It is a day like all others in many respects with the temperature in the high 30's and virtually no breeze.
Today is a rest day during this rather exhausting visit. The children of the family of Wageeh William (shown left sstganding in front of their parents) are in school as the Christian schools have Friday and Sunday off, but not Saturday. A normal day in this household means catching the news on TV in the morning via satelite (BBC preferred here although I have found Aljazeera to be very good as well. ) The morning Khartoum Monitor paper highlights more news about the upcoming referendum in the south and the peace talks that are nearing completion in Darfur. The paper also has headlines about Justin Beiber winning 4 awards at the Music Awards ceremony earlier this week and that the Black Eyed Peas will be performing at the Super Bowl (which does not appear in tv here - no one interested in that when soccer is being played). We will be breaking bread shortly for lunch at the Wageeh William homestead with a group from Germany and then . . . . don't know yet. It is a dayof rest. Tomorrow we head of on a flying adventure with Sudan Airways to Port Sudan for a couple of days with the reborn YMCA there and then back to Khartoum to complete the visit, write up reports, and a few more visits to Khartoum YMCA progams.
Stay tuned - we may not be as regular with postings, but we will be back! Mona just got back from school so I better return her internet stick to her.

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