The plane left this morning. Lanny is going to get a new Land Rover at Juba. Daniel, chief of Lohutok, went - on government business I suppose. Michael went to buy sorghum.
Samuel and I completed the last two steel rafters today. It was our best day ever. I am glad I know how to use an electric welder.
I went for a walk today. I saw some women on the "rock hill" who were making sorghum beer. One woman was laying some sprouted, dark-colored sorghum out on the rock to dry. Another woman had ground some sorghum and spread it out to dry. Judging from the container it had been in, it had been wet when it was in the ground-up form. (But I cannot be sure.) It smelled a bit fermented when it was damp. When it was dry, the woman swept it up and put it into her container. It was a dry, powdery substance.
Photos: Woman making beer from ground sorghum while carrying child on her back.
Yesterday, Michael pointed out some sesame to me in a field. He called it simsim. It is eaten with the sorghum porridge. (He called it porridge, but it is actually more like a stiff dough.) Vegetables and perhaps meat is also eaten with the sorghum porridge. The porridge is held in the fingers and used to dip in the vegetable dish.
I saw Abele's brother, Akim, today. He teaches P3 (third grade) at the school. He was planting some of the improved sorghum seed that Josiah got from Norwegian Church Aid (NCA). He said a bag about a foot long cost one Sudanese pound.
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