So did some more Maasai teaching this week and was looking after the beginners which seemed a relatively easy task – teaching weather and so on. Never have I spent such an exhausting 45 minutes! Not that there was anything wrong with my pupils they were perfectly charming but I hadn’t really appreciated that both the guys I was teaching didn’t know how to read or write AT ALL let alone in English.
There is something very strange about teaching two fully grown men (who have spears, knives and the occasional bow and arrow – and one of whom is a medicine man) s-u-n and r-a-i-n.
Luckily I think it went okay but we’ll have to see if they can remember yesterday’s lesson today…
