Thursday while driving to Maloney Daniel and I were discussing about how the lack of variety in the terrain in southern Sudan would discourage people from moving from home since one would have to walk hundreds of miles to reach another kind of terrain.
So I decided to ask Deng if there was a word in Dinka for mountain. He responded yes and told me that the word is “kool”.
I then asked him and Santino if they’d ever seen a mountain, they responded yes, but not in Tonj. They said there are mountains further south near Juba.
I then asked them how big they were to which Santino responded…
“You see that tree there, they’re even that big.”
We all had a great laugh. We all love sitting around sharing about the similarities and differences of life in Sudan, Kenya, and the USA – and this one was particularly memorable.