In her debut show on MTV, Claire Danes faced the trials and tribulations of becoming an adult. At a talk I heard this weekend, the speaker faced similar difficulties when, at the age of eighteen, he had to kill a lion.
He was a fascinating speaker and managed to mix in moments of levity while talking about the challenges faced by his tribe: the Masai. When he accidentally knocked over the mic stand, he said "I'm sorry, I don't know machines, just lions." He also said that when you kill your lion, you get a woman. He then gave a knowing look to the crowd. I imagined those sensitive Cantabrigian men sitting around me being instantly devoured.
It happened at the annual Cultural Survival Bazaar in Cambridge this past weekend. There you can buy such indigenous handcrafts as llama wool socks and buffalo toe dream catchers, all while drinking fair trade hot cocoa and mingling with people who seem to hate make-up.
You can visit the website of the organization the Masai fellows works with here: http://www.quenchthethirst.org/ . They focus on drilling wells so Masai women don't have to walk fifteen miles every day to draw water. The organization started when a young college student donated enough for the first well, which in her honor is now referred to as "Christina."
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that lion looks ferocious. i want to kill it. and get a woman!
hahaha. (@seth)
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