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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Two more demented people I can’t think of.
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.
That’s nothing. I read about an African American woman who married a Kenyan and lived in the White Hut.
rotflmao
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
white girls...God love em...they are so bleary and easier to freak
but wait:(Lord Jim too)
LOL, too true! But I think you know what I meant...
Response: She is very deep and spiritual.
I am speechless and that doesn’t happen very often.
“For the record, I dont 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?
Read more: 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#ixzz1JRwOPtAL
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