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Went to the village today to find our third girl. If it sounds like ‘how on earth is it that they’re 9 days from leaving and they’ve yet to cast this thing?’… well, you’re right. It was freaking us out as well. 

But doing this kind of work in unfamiliar settings, across language and cultural divides, well, it requires patience and flexibility and ingenuity. We employed all three of those things, and some extra prayers to the god of documentary filmmaking (who, for lack of a better name, we’re calling “Vishu Al-Gudwillina”)…

And We Found Her!

It was not without some sweat, and some weeping and wailing and some gnashing of teeth.

But we identified a girl who we believe will fill out out our story very nicely, very truly–and more importantly, who very likely will be the next Little Sister scholarship recipient. 

More about K– later. For now though, let me just say: This girl works hard.

No, I mean way harder than you. 

 

 

…and (surprise!) we think we’re in love with K–