Article Archive for August 2009
Through Maasai Eyes: American Travel
After traveling all day from San Antonio, TX to San Jose, CA, we got into a van and started a multiple hour journey to the place we would stay for five days in Modesto, CA. …
Through Maasai Eyes: Flying
Before getting on the flight to California, Karduni looked at me and said, “This flying stuff is easy now. We’ve been to school for this!”
She was referring to the roller coaster.
Roller Coasters: Through Maasai Eyes
The first time I went to Maasailand I dreamed for a full week of how to explain a roller coaster to a Maasai (Masai). After taking the En-kata choir on the Steel Eel at Sea …
Singing in Southwest Airlines
We had a wonderful flight from San Antonio to San Jose on Southwest Airlines. The choir of 9 Maasai on this “Faces of Change” tour, sang in the airplane at the flight attendants’ request. It …
Through Maasai Eyes: Day 2
“What does the machine do with the money??” -Isack- referring to all the coins we pushed into the laundry machines… when there was a coin clinking around in the bottom of the load it confused …
Through Maasai Eyes: Day 1
On their first day in America, after going to Wall Mart and going to the Alamo, and talking to people on the Riverwalk, Isack said to Jacob:
“If I were a cow, you could have sold …
Fish the size of houses & roller coasters
Fish and the Maasai (Masai) are not really things that go together. For example, Yona’s mother won’t eat for a week if anyone even mentions the word ‘fish’ in her presence. It’s like me asking …
Some Friends we met at Sea World, San Antonio
The kindest of ladies, Bernita Cox and her sons Reginald and Jonathan procured free Sea World tickets for us! What a day! Here are some of the wonderful people we met.
Thank you all So Much …
Day 4 and the Dallas Cowboys
We went to see the Dallas Cowboys today!… but first there was a trip to the grocery store to purchase some meat! Yona and Kardone were delighted to pick the fattiest cut around! (I have …
