The first thing we did in human geography today was review
our answers for the questions using the CIA World Factbook. After many apples
were thrown at the ones who got the questions incorrect (including myself, I
still think it was way too early to say numbers!) we watched a video called “God
Grew Tired of Us.” With Brad Pitt as one of the producers! The documentary was
about how the African country Sudan was torn apart by civil war between the
north and the south. This war was about religions. The Muslims in the north and
the Christians in the south. They would burn down houses with people in them,
rape women, and this resulted in killing over 2 million people! The war got so
terrible everyone fled from their homes to find safety. Mostly men survived,
and they traveled together in make-shift families and they soon got the
nickname, “the lost boys.” The United Nations made a refugee camp, for them.
When they had arrived there, most of the boys were just skin and bone. There is
still a lot of the documentary to see and I look forward to see what will
happen when some of the refugees are offered a chance to start a new life in
America.
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