notes gathered from interview: Sudan and David's life

• people are in great need of medicine, water, and a school
• Arabs take oil to China; Sudan gets 2% and guns
• left from hometown to ethiopia; became a lost boy
• born in southern sudan, flee to ethiopia then to kenya, to the U.S.
• trained to go to war
• 1994: came to the U.S. and wasnt allowed to go to a refugee camp
• spoke Arabic all throughout his life
• rivers were the water source filled with crocodiles
• Sudan means two black men
• the water Sudanese people have now has been poisoned by oil being pumped for war effort: purification needed rather than destalation
• Father was shot-mother sold food; tradition for mothers
• Southern Sudan wants independence
• many are still in training because they say the war isn't over.
• left as a lost boy with many others. 2,000 boys died in the river alone
• carrying gallons of water on their head everyda, no good food, no medical
• his mother became a christian and was baptized in 1923. his other brother/leader.
• had 7 siblings, youngest out of all. older brother killed in war/sister died before he was born
• his father had three wives
• in 1979 (12 years old) got marks on his forehead to signify manhood
• lived a "kill or to be killed" society
• rulers of Sudan are muslim against blacks
• Nuer vs. Dinka tribal wars are still going on to prepare for actual war
• All over Sudan there are mangoes in the bushes; everywhere in southern Sudan
• nothern Sudan is all desert
• Came to minnesota in 1996 and from now he's still in school