This woman could be the mother of a future President of the United States!!!
Posted on 04/03/2010 11:39:57 AM PDT by valkyry1
Like many young women in love, Colette Armand believes she was hit by a coup de foudre when she first saw her future husband. 'The attraction was instant,' she says. 'We had an immediate connection.'
Photographs testify to the strength of their bond, showing a beaming young couple clearly delighted by each other's company.
That, however, is where the conventional nature of their romance ends. For Colette's intended is a Masai warrior whose home is a mud hut on the vast African plains.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I am getting on an airplane now, so I'll be off line for a few hours here.
ping!
So cute. So dumb.
"The Heart hath reasons that Reason knows not of."
We will see what happens when the harsh reality strikes home!
The Masai are good guys, very honest.
Cattlemen like you wouldn’t believe.
They don’t ask “how are you”.. they ask “how are your cattle”.
Many people might think this is an odd couple. However, many western women are looking for real men, men who’ll provide and care for them and their families, instead of getting snockered on vacations to Spain and fistfighting. If you have to go to Africa and become the wife of a Masai, then sobeit.
Reading the story, it is interesting that his woman’s father left them at age 12 suddenly. She goes to the sorbonne and has a typical 20 something “identity crisis” that can only happen to women( girls) who don’t have real responsibilities.
Suddenly she dashes off to Africa and then sees this warrior coming back from the hunt with a lion and is smitten....Wow...could a psychologist have fun interpreting this one.!
a comment on the British Blog of this story BY A WOMAN who had grown up in africa, highly doubted this whole story about the details...the “drama”..
My take? she will marry the guy, hang out a few months, there will be a “crisis”, she will come back to Europe, write a book , do the Talk circuit and share with all the French Libs how lovely the primitive African life is! HA HA HA.
Sounds like you’re describing a modern-day Stanley Ann Dunham.
He may be a better choice than an urban metrosexual.
“Meitkini, she says, felt the same way, but Masai relationships do not adhere to the same conventions as they do in the West. ‘The Masai don’t marry for love but for power and social position, so it is a slightly alien concept. It was a long time before we were able to acknowledge our feelings for each other, and we couldn’t express them physically, as Masai rules forbid physical contact between unmarried men and women. It was frustrating, but I had to respect their culture. I was a visitor and it would have been a gross insult to behave any other way.’”
Obviously the Masais haven’t had the blessings of multiculturalism showered upon them!
In O’s case that might be an improvement. At least the Masai are warriors. Barack Obama doesn’t srike me as much of a warrior. If he’d grown up hunting and hearing stories about bravery and battles he might be a lot closer to understanding our “warriors”. The ones who founded, built and made this country what it is. Instead of the sickly commie culture that Ann, BO Sr., Frank Marshall and the grandparents were enamored of. Also if he had ever done without and had to survive with nothing in the bush, he might be more appreciative of the modern world. Instead of trying to drag us into the dark ages, based on some loopy romantic nonsense about the third world that Ann spoon fed him.
Also, they don't live in 'mud huts':
"The huts take seven months to build by the women of the village. They are built of branches, twigs, grass, and cow dung and urine formed into a plaster and applied to a branch frame. When the mixure dries in the sun it is as strong a cement and does not smell. "
Despite my previous post, there IS something that smells about this account.
... Developing.
“The central unit of Maasai society is the age-set. Although young boys are sent out with the calves and lambs as soon as they can toddle, childhood for boys is mostly playtime, with the exception of ritual beatings to test courage and endurance. Girls are responsible for chores such as cooking and milking, skills which they learn from their mothers at an early age.[25] Every 15 years or so, a new and individually named generation of Morans or Il-murran (warriors) will be initiated. This involves most boys between 12 and 25, who have reached puberty and are not part of the previous age-set. One rite of passage from boyhood to the status of junior warrior is a painful circumcision ceremony, which is performed without anaesthetic. This ritual is typically performed by the elders, who use a sharpened knife and makeshift cattle hide bandages for the procedure. The Maa word for circumcision is emorata.[26] The boy must endure the operation in silence. Expressions of pain bring dishonor, albeit temporarily. Any exclamations can cause a mistake in the delicate and tedious process, which can result in life-long scarring, dysfunction, and pain. The healing process will take 3–4 months, during which urination is painful and nearly impossible at times, and boys must remain in black cloths for a period of 4–8 months.[27]”
Sound like some very tough people to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai
I wonder if the young lady knows she will be....community property.
And a spear wielding guy from a different culture, that lives in the African plains, with no house or bathroom or running water will “provide and care” for her and her children more than a guy that lives in a proper house, has running water and a good job can? It takes more then merely mucking about with spears to be a "real man".
Who is she? Jane? She's seen too many Tarzan movies and read too many romantic novels. Probably suffering from a touch of sunstroke as well. She'll her her senses back soon enough.
LOL!!!!!
” ME TARZAN....YOU (stupid, liberal, French, monied) JANE !”
Thank you. Good answer to that idiotic comment.
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