Month: November 2012

Today was a pretty important day.  Around 25 Maasai men and women showed up to hear our presentations at camp.  Each of us gave a ~5 minute talk, which was translated for them, about what our research was and about some of our preliminary findings.  I didn’t feel nervous at all… I even got asked…

Right now I feel really great because I washed my clothes this morning, which I haven’t done once in the past month, and because I just got out of the shower!  I also did my last interview with a Maasai woman yesterday, which feels great.  It’s nice for once not to have festering and unclean…

Today I did my final interview.  At the Boma there were some really tiny kids with shukas on, who were scared of me!  I walked towards one of them and he ran away… I don’t think he had seen a white person before!  I’m really happy about the quality time that I have gotten to…

We received the news this morning that Obama won the election!  People are very happy about it here, as am I.  I do feel as though I can’t fully partake in the celebration though, partly because I don’t have any money for booze and I feel bad asking people for some and partly because for…

Today I went with Sarah to a Boma where I previously conducted interviews and we cooked lunch!  We got there and the Maasai people were chilling outside of their tool/kitchen plaster shed.  There was the ‘Baba’ of the Boma, who was carving the handle of a firewood chopping machete (it was a tire, rubber handle),…

I really should take a shower today… it’s been quite a few days now.  My hair is especially greasy and I am feeling kind of downtrodden and tired.  Thankfully the showers here are all-cold and provide the perfect antidote to those feelings.  I think that my research is going well.  Right now I’ve been screening…