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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Boy is she going to hate herself.
Let’s revisit this issue after the rainy season. She is 24 years old. Most women go through a mid-life style crisis between 26-35 ( media never covers it) We will see when she comes down with blackwater if its all stars and unicorns.
I think the culture differential is huge, but that might work in her favor.
Don’t know about Saudi Arabia, but I have known some extraordinarily attractive Iranian women. Just stunning. But I think Iran is very different.
My wife nearly married an Egyptian guy before she married me, and from what she tells me, she really dodged a bullet. His family treated her pretty shabbily, and I got the distinct impression that an American woman marrying into that culture would be much more painful than it would for a guy.
“Anyone who can date someone for 3 years w/o physical contact probably truly loves the person.”
Anyone who can date someone for 3 years w/o physical contact probably is as crazy as a loon. But I couldn’t be more thrilled for the happy couple.
Obamama hell scare will take care of preexisting parasites.
Her hair and makeup look to good to have no possessions. Most likely has not given up everything.
Doesn’t look like they have “no possessions” to me. What has she been smoking?
As soon as she realizes she is on a permanent campout, she will be gone.
Wow, that sounds like fun.
What ever turns you on baby! But don’t come crying back to the civilized world!
She won't. She'll have her kid run for POTUS, if there is any US left to be P of.
Yeah. I am with you on this. I can’t imagine doing it, but that is just me. I can imagine someone else doing it, and I know people who could do it.
I have no idea about her, because I don’t know her. Some other poster postulated that she was getting back at her parents...that could always be true, I don’t know.
Oh, this is a hoot! It makes me think of the movie Sleeper, when Woody Allen kidnaps the modern woman and she can’t handle roughing it by the campfire. “I haven’t had a bath in hours!”
I wonder how much she will appreciate childbearing.... “Check, please!”
Kudos to her for learning to live life in an ancient warrior tradition.The weak could never accomplish such a thing.
LOL!
Crazy as a loon...
Lots of footgear and body covering disparity there.
I hope all the Berkeley grads go there.
I’ve thought about getting out of here and joining the Masai myself. I’m good enough with archery equipment that I’m fairly certain they’d overlook me being the wrong color...
There goes the neighborhood.
He will have about 12 wives and she might get HIV.Dumb.
I feel sorry for the Masai dude. Just wait until she whomps him upside the head with a cast iron skillet.
parsy, who can feel it all the way from Africa
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