Matt Christensen

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…

People are too addicted to the Internet (me too)!  It saddens me how much of a grip, a pulling grip that computer use has on the lives of the people of my generation.  Even here, with severely limited access, people scramble and fight for the chance to get on it… it’s pretty sad.  I am…