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Learning english

Category: Meet the Lion Guardians | Date: Dec 23 2007 | By: admin

It was late afternoon and Leela and I decided to pay a visit to the Lion Guardian for Lenkilriti area. Kapande was out tracking and as we were about to turn and go, he appeared behind us smiling. It was a fake smile since his face showed it all. He was really tired from walking all day.

We agreed to take a drive to one of the hills close to his boma and have a chat. He was so happy seeing us that his fatigue went away. His welcome to Leela was so great that he adorned her with flowers.

Kapande has on most occasions wanted to learn English so that he can be in a position to talk to Leela one on one. That was when we thought it was good to give him some English lesson.

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His happiness could not be more when he took time to look around the hill and reading the names we noted down for him of all animals around us. “sibra, wildibeest……………” he went on and on.

2 Responses to “Learning english”

Virginia, on 23 Dec 2007

I made a Masai friend sometime ago in Mombasa, his name is Meriake Moonka and had one of the best times of my life trying to learn swahili, him learning english. I wished you all had the chance to learn it sometime….many from the young generations learn it at school, I was told.

sheryl, washington dc, on 23 Dec 2007

Neat. English is hard to learn, I’m told, and I wonder how you go about teaching it? I think it would be pretty cool to teach someone to speak English.

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