We hope to leave Najile in the morning and spend some down time looking at animals in the Maasai Mara National Game Park. We are all looking forward to this. Leaving at 7 am, we hope.
Did some walking around the area of Nagile this morning. Then, Byron was asked to kill the goat for the noon meal, which he did. We visited a Christian School for children being sponsored by Compassion Canada, and then drove to meet Magdalena, a woman with AIDS now for 7 or 8 years ... and because she has th ARVs and reasonable nutrition, she is managing, at an age of over 65, to look really healthy. Then we returned the homes of the Kiranto family to eat a bit of the goat. Apparently, the Maasai really don't like killing any cattle, including goats. The animals are a gift from God to them and they prefer to use them for milk, and the drinking of small amounts of blood sometimes. (they drain the blood off a cow ... by poking a primary artery somewhere.) The cow barely knows this was poked, apparently. They prefer to buy their meat from the butcher in town; maybe that makes them feel more distant from the killing that happens when they do it at home.
Exchanged gifts with the extended Kiranto family this evening, did some singing with them, and some praying. Wonderfully gentle people. I don't know if I have met a culture that speaks English so delicately and so eloquently.
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