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| Typical day working in the clinic. Patients come from near and far. Some walk minutes, some walk hours, and others drive hours. There is not much access to care here. |
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| From left to right. This is the clinic staff. Eunice #1, Eunice #2, Dr. Grossman, William. The two Eunice's are the dental assistants and William is the clinic manager. The clinic is soon to lose both of the Eunice's by the end of the year. William says it is very hard to employ young women as they get married and then their husbands do not want them to work. He is starting the process of looking for new candidates but it is hard to find people that speak Swahili, Maasai, and English and also fit the bill to be a dental assistant. |
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| These Maasai did a ceremonial dance for us. |
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These warriors perform the adumu, or aigus, sometimes referred as “the jumping dance” by non-Maasai. (both adumu and aigus are Maa verbs meaning “to jump” with adumu meaning “To jump up and down in a dance”.
Warriors are well known for, and often photographed during, this competitive jumping. A circle is formed by the warriors, and one or two at a time will enter the center to begin jumping while maintaining a narrow posture, never letting their heels touch the ground. Members of the group may raise the pitch of their voices based on the height of the jump.
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| While viewing some game over the weekend this wild Cheetah jumped on top of our vehicle. and stayed there for about 10-15 minutes. We braved a few pictures, very slowly sticking our heads through the sun roof. |
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| This Jackal cleaning up a kill. |
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| As he walked away the vultures who were on the side lines watching jumped in. |
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| Caught this male lion walking along a rocky outcropping. They usually are sleeping up to 20 hours a day. |
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