Broadcasting Live from Tonj Sudan!

Today I sat in on a meeting with Sabet and a couple people from the local Catholic mission, Don Bosco. We are going to be working with them for our World Cup Outreach. During the month of May, we will be helping them with a sports tournament in Tonj. We are going to have people play basketball, volleyball and football (soccer). It will be a fun community event. Then, they will help us with our month long World Cup program. We came up with a lot of good ideas today. Our theme is "Play to Live."

Father Cyril is our contact at Don Bosco. He also heads up the radio station. This evening, we got to tour the facility. They have three studios... it was very impressive. They even had air conditioning! After our tour, Father Cyril told us the news would be broadcasting at eight (in ten minutes) and asked us to introduce ourselves and say hi to the audience.... LIVE. So we all sat around a table wearing headphones with a microphone in the middle. Then when it was time, the station manager introduced us and we each took a turn saying hi. I got really nervous right before it was my turn. When it came time for my big moment I said "Hi, my name is Stacie. I am from America. Here, Yan Achol Yar. (My name is Yar) I hope you have a good night." The rest of the time I just tried not to laugh. I am far too immature for LIVE radio. If I had more time I would have prepared something better to say. It was a lot of fun. I really want to go back there and play around in the studio, kind of like the Stevie Wonder episode of The Cosby Show.