We are on our way to the Maasai Tribe about 2 hours from Kijabe (where we are staying). The journey there is a bunch of dusty roads in the middle of the no where. We will be staying in the bush for 5 days with the Maasai. We finally get there and the valley is about 100 degrees, we unload our dusty things and put all our food for the week in the nearest kitchen hut which is about a 10ft x 5ft mud room. We are careful how we interact with the people because we do not know thier culture. Thier bright red and yellow clothes catch my eye and they are covered head to toe with beads. They are so beasutiful. Most of the children are scared of our white faces , but the older men and women come to greet us…”Sopa” which means hello. As we are forming our tents, an older lady named Rebecca grabs my hand speaking maasai and telling me and the other grils to come. i have no idea what is going to happen. she brings us into her hut and as we made our way through the several little hallways we finally make it to an open area where her kitchecn and bedroom are. Mind you this hut is probably as big as a full size bathroom in the US. She sits us odwn and starts hanging us cups. I get kind of nervous since the 1st thing they tell you when you travel is NOT to drink the water. She starts speaking Maasai and her son translated. Since she knew we were coming she prepared this milk for us. This is to welcome us to the tribe. So we all got a glass of luke warm milk. Drinking it was a bit of a struggle but the meaning behind it iwas amazing. Right away she welcomed us with open arms. Her son told us that were were only the 2nd group of white people to come. How amazing. tThe Maasai Tribe is taught about in elementary schools in the US and we got to be there or 5 full days living amongst them. This was only the beginning of some of the most powerful days I have expereinced as well as some of the hardest.
Please remember to read y other teammated blogs as well. These are all stories that we have gone through together.
“Make it your ambition to lead a quite life,. to mind your own business and to work wit hyour hands, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders an so you will be dependent on anyone.” I Thess. 4:11-12
