Sunday, November 22, 2009

The gods must be crazy

100 points to whoever can name the people where the movie The gods must be crazy was filmed. Well is was with the Masai in the Mara. There is a BSF project where the Masai people live, so we got to visit them. They have had 3 years of drought and it had rained a few days before we showed up. Like you hear in stories of Africans, despite hardships they were joyful. The Masai are herdsmen and there we reports of men loosing there entire heard of cattle, over 300 head. We saw I little bit of the death on the way out.





Here are some typical Masai women. They really do wear jewelery like that on a day to day basis.








The local staff at the hospital donated a truck full of food to the Masai. So cool to see Africans helping Africans.






Walking to a filter site with a local program manager.







One of the Masai BSF owners. I bought 2 over her necklaces off of her for 2000 shillings. That is about $30.00. They told me I over paid, but for likely a few days work, I was not upset.






EPIC roofing representing!!! (my old company) Somehow, the Masai make flat roofs out of mud. And they don't leak. I tried to sell them a Rooffast product, but they said they preferred the type of roof that was free.







Just a nice pic of a door






This girl was playing with my carabineer that i used to clip my water bottle onto my bag with, and she never gave it back.







Diesel??? Well, i done see bluejeans or fuel.






Just a regular African thorn.








Sorry for the gruesome photo. This is one of the results of 3 years without much rain.






But, there was rain and new life...

2 comments:

  1. Nice pics, good story line! While you are in Kenya, ask one of the locals if they had an opportunity to meet Bob Talvert, a missionary who lived there quite a few years and was fluent in the Masai language. He was with the International Mission Board. We stayed with him and his wife and son, Zack in Nairobi when we were there with the eye glass ministry mission trip. The church we went to had a paster named Moses and his wife, Lucy - two young Masai Christians.

    Keep the blogs coming - Derek and I really loved reading them all!! God Bless, Sheri

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  2. wow! that is sad with the cow! looks pretty amazing though and i'd love to come visit sometime...soon hopefully!

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