Now we're rolling!

I’m writing on two hours of restless sleep after a long day, it's midnight, so this ain't nothin' deep.

Today we went to a remote part of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, a geological fault zone where the Masai live.

On the way to our destination, we were right in the middle of a mad cross-desert motor cross rally!

I don’t have much steam to recall all I learned today, but I’ll tell you that the culture is very colorful, interesting, and full of symbolism and tradition.

Even though western ideas and religion have entered the culture of the Masai, they hold on tight too much of their old school ways.

Our objectives today were:
-To visit a church with many Compassion children who are Masai
-To see the progress of a boarding school for girls that is being funded by compassion donor
-to visit some of the homes of Masai children who were sponsored by people on the trip

I think I did a good job documenting all of the above. I did not get a lot of free time to photograph Masai individuals with good lighting. I photo graphed two mothers and printed pictures for them as I was dashing to the car to go to the “home visits”

I feel honored to be here and to witness such a unique culture. The colors are so vibrant.

We were just leaving the Great Rift Valley as the sun set.

If I can get to it, I’ll post some pictures.