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| Today after seeing patients in the clinic we visited a local village. They gave us the full tour. The Maasai are semi nomadic people so there structures are not built to be forever. From what I gathered the women are the ones that do all of the heavy lifting, they build the houses, clean out the goat pens, etc. |
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| These guys made fire with this stick system in about 2 minutes. |
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| I'm not sure if I could do it in 2 days. |
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| The boys joined in on the ceremonial "jumping" dance. Apparently the highest jumper gets the ladies. |
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| The ladies had their dance as well. |
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| It was very rhythmic and involved a shoulder shake. |
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| This is where they live. We toured the inside. It has a stick frame with cow's hide and mud. |
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| There is no power out here but they do have little solar charges because believe it or not it seems everyone has a cell phone. |
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| This is inside their dwelling. In the middle there is a fire pit. A bed lies on either side of the fire pit. |
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| This is used to store milk and blood is what this guy told us. |
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| Up on the wall just behind the fire pit is where they store a few dishes and that small hole (window) is for the smoke to escape the fire pit. |
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| It is tight quarters for sure. |
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| This is inside their goat pen. They stack sticks to create a pen. This is to keep the goats from being eaten by lions at night. |
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