Saturday, August 26, 2006

Back to the maasai...in thoughts anyway


This is Daniel the moran.

The funny thing about names is that they would always tell me the name that was known as their "christian name" but they never used mine. They always called me by my Maasai name...I think they didn't actually like my so called "christian name"....but anyway that's something else.

His Maasai name is Ololoong. He is a really really nice kid...I should say nice guy. He wanted to learn english and he already knew a few words, and he wished he would go to school but you cannot be a moran (a traditional maasai warrior, which Daniel was brought up to be) and be a school boy.

I always though his shoes were cool made of car tires and not even trimmed to fit his feet.