Salva and Chris and Louise spet hours on the phone to various agencies and offices.
What if my father leaves the hospital without telling anyone? Where is he going? What if I get there too late?
After the excitement of seeing that first spray of water , the villagers went back to work. Several men gathered in front of Nya's house. They had tools with them hoes and spades and scythes.
Salva flew in a jet to New York City,
After several exchange of emails, Salva, learned that the cousin had not actually seen or spoken to his father. The clinic where his father was recovering was in a remote part of southern Sudan. There were no telephone or mail service--no way of communicating with the clinic staff.
In Kampala it took Salva two days to get through customs and immigration before he could board a smaller plane to go to Juba
At last the forms were filled out and all the paper work was in order.
After many hours of Jolting and bumping along roads in the jeep-after nearly a week of exhausting travel-
hello!I am looking for patient named Mawien Dut Ariik
Another one to Amsterdam and third to Kampala in Uganda.
...Then he rode in a jeep on dusty dirt roads into the bush...Everything was just as Salva remembered it, as he had left only yesterday.
Salva entered the shanty that served as a recovery room at the make shift hospital...