Friday.
March 3rd, 1989 in Renk, present day South Sudan a young man was born on a Friday. His parents named him Friday. He grew up in the heat and with the scorpions. The firstborn son of Jay and Elizabeth, from the beautiful ethnic group called the Anyua or Anuak. His ethnic group was one of the first Nilotic groups to become Christian. Missionaries went in the 1960's to teach and train. He spoke only Arabic though and grew up in a town with one road through it. This road eventually led his family to seek shelter from fighting and war in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. He travelled as a 6 year old, walking the three day journey on foot, while his new younger brother was carried. They travelled at night and slept in the day. His 6 year old body was tired and weary, on the look-out for soldiers and dangers of the road. They were eventually found by soldiers, the good ones. The ones who would help lead them to a small Anuak village, where he embarked on ...