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Middle-class woman gives up life of luxury to live in a mud hut with an African warrior
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1262574/My-Masai-Mr-Right-Why-middle-class-woman-giving-life-luxury-live-mud-hut-African-warrior.html#ixzz0k0DzvcuE ^

Posted on 04/02/2010 8:15:19 PM PDT by cycle of discernment

Colette Armand believes she was hit by a coup de foudre when she first saw her future husband. 'The attraction was instant,' she says.

Meitkini's tribe have no possessions and no running water, and their food is either plucked from the ground or killed with a spear.

Nonetheless, after a courtship of three years, Colette, 24, is preparing to abandon all the comforts of her western lifestyle to join her life permanently with his - even though, to date, she hasn't shared so much as a kiss with her 23-year-old fiance, as Masai rules forbid physical contact between men and women who aren't married.

'The only water came from a small muddy tributary that's home to snakes and crocodiles,' says Colette.

'I was too scared to bathe, so I had to resort to having a makeshift wash in water boiled on the fire -

... after two weeks Colette was told the community had decided to sacrifice a goat as a welcoming gift - a huge honour.

'They slaughtered it in front of me, which was horrible, then put its warm blood in a cup for me to drink. It tasted disgusting, but I had to do it as I would have hugely offended them otherwise. I just closed my eyes and tried not to be sick.'

In the future, she may have to share her husband with other women, as Masai tradition permits any number of wives.

The daughter of a nurse and a businessman, her father's job, took the family all over the world.

Academically gifted, at 17 she was studying in Paris. At 21, disillusioned with her studies and with a failed romance behind her- 'I realised I needed to have an adventure and try and find myself.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; armand; colettearmand; marriage; masai; masaimarriage; massaiwarrior; mudhut; mudhuts
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To: null and void

Two more demented people I can’t think of.


121 posted on 04/03/2010 2:49:00 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: maine-iac7

I have no quibble with the Masai.

But any western woman who marries into a culture which manages without indoor plumbing is taking on a major task when it comes to house keeping. Wait until she has a baby for the blowback.


122 posted on 04/03/2010 3:33:36 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: thulldud

That’s nothing. I read about an African American woman who married a Kenyan and lived in the White Hut.


123 posted on 04/03/2010 4:45:14 AM PDT by 1951Boomer
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To: cycle of discernment

rotflmao


124 posted on 04/03/2010 10:08:35 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: cycle of discernment

not jungle fever but high plains dry and dusty cow blood fever

actually I suspect she saw in her mate what Heidi Klum always said first attracted her to Seal first time she met him in his bicycle shorts...the appendage of lore

however in defense of the Masai gents...both of these fruitbat gals ..Collette and the Blonde one look a heck of a lot better than what most brothas here in Nashville troll for in the pinkie community


125 posted on 04/03/2010 10:13:18 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: cycle of discernment
when will an idealistic white guy go all National Geographic on us too?

white girls...God love em...they are so bleary and easier to freak

but wait:(Lord Jim too)


126 posted on 04/03/2010 10:17:25 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: Arthur McGowan

LOL, too true! But I think you know what I meant...


127 posted on 04/03/2010 12:47:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: cycle of discernment
Statement: "Middle-class woman gives up life of luxury to live in a mud hut with an African warrior"

Response: She is very deep and spiritual.

128 posted on 04/03/2010 12:58:06 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: cycle of discernment

I am speechless and that doesn’t happen very often.


129 posted on 04/06/2010 6:15:17 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: cycle of discernment

“For the record, I don’t believe Obama was born in Kenya. And if WND is trying to convince me that middleclass white atheists like giving birth in foreign mud huts, good luck.”

But in the era of feminism/romanticism they do. ...story of an English girl.

My Masai Mr Right: Why is this middle-class woman giving up a life of luxury to live in a mud hut with an African warrior?
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130 posted on 04/13/2011 4:51:07 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
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