Lion Guardians

Category: Donations received, life in camp | Date: Feb 13 2008 | By: admin

Last night, I was working on my computer and all of a sudden, I felt a sharp painful sting. I jumped from my seat and started looking around. Coiling under my seat was a scorpion. I took my open shoe and started hitting it from anger mixed with pain. Slowly, the poison moved up my blood stream making every part that it came across numb.

Fortunately, Maria, our cook was around. Her Maasai sub-clan has “precious” saliva that heals scorpion stings. I yelled out for her to come to my rescue. She came running, thinking I had been attacked by an elephant. When she realized I had been stung by a scorpion and wasn’t on the verge of death, she laughed at the way I had been yelling for her. After a good laugh, she felt pity for my pain and she spit on my foot close to the ankle where the scorpion had bit me. Within twenty minutes the pain went down. She saved me the agony of having to suffer pain the whole night before the poison could dissolve into my blood.

Thanks, Maria, you saved me a lot of agony.

The Maasai tribe is broken into clans and sub-clans, each having their own special characters which I will tell you more about tomorrow.

Today, I have several important thank you’s to say. These are even as important as thanking Maria for spitting on me!

The most sincere thanks to Theresa who once again showed us her unshakeable support as well as big thanks to Ivan and Peter P. and Emily. We couldn’t do this without you all!

Here is a picture of a sunrise from the plains twisted with clouds and mist

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