WARNING! Some of the pictures below may not be suitable for vegetarians, goat lovers, or people with weak stomaches for carnage. You've been warned!

Andy with students Paulo (L) and Elias (R) constructing the school sign

From left to right, Peter, Laizer, Goodluck, Samwel, (driver) and Kauka, about to leave for Monduli juu loaded in the back of a 4x4 taking 2 week's worth of food and 1 week's worth of water. Can you locate the live goat??

A young cattle herder

Some children playing around their boma

Maasai warriors. The warrior on the left has his hair braided long with extentions. Only warriors are allowed to grow out there hair to show their status. The warrior on the right is holding a staff with a tuft of hair from the tail of a wildebeest at the top. Usually, if there is a party at a boma, the father of the boma carries a shorter wand like this one to show it is his home.

A Maasai warrior

A goat slaughter in the Maasai culture is performed by suffocating the goat. This takes from 3 mintues up to about 5 minutes and is done for the purpose of saving as much blood as possible for later consumption.

The carnage begins...

The first order of business is to preserve the goat's skin. It will later be sold for about a dollar or two at the local market and made into a goat-skin chair stretched over a wood frame or made into something else useful.

Friends Grosper (L) and Laizer (R) share a leg of goat (who needs a butcher?!)

An excited crowd of Maasai elders on Open Day in August

Haley enjoying a dip in a Kilimanjaro National Park stream

Waterfalls in Kilimanjaro National Park

A mosque in Moshi Town

Mt. Kilimanjaro over Moshi Town, east of Arusha

Vicky, with knife in hand, about to prepare our chicken for dinner (aka cut its head off). Neither she nor any other female students can believe we don't know the proper way of "offing" a chicken.

Students Jonayce (L) and Upendo (R). Jonayce is representing Michigan with a sweatshirt she bought in Monduli chini market.

Students Miliary (L) and Supuro (R). Miliary is representing with his "Oregon Cowgirls" shirt on which he bought in Monduli chini market.

Haley with student Paulo

Ashley with students Elizabeth (L) and Bibiana (R)

Mt. Meru overlooking Ausha Town. We've been told by locals that, compared to Kili, it's terrain is "steepy sana" (very steep!)

A 5-year old girl with her paka (cat) outside her boma.

Below, a Maasai boma overlooks the famous Great Rift Valley which runs through Kenya and Northern Tanzania.

Sunrise in Eluwai

The Aang Serian Football Team

The students huddle before gametime as Ngariapusi poses for a photo-op!

A local shop in Monduli chini

Even though we've lived here for 8 months, we are still one of the town's main attractions.

A day at the market in Monduli chini.

A young Maasai boy, not yet circumcised, pretending to be a warrior by strapping a piece of cloth on his head to resemble the hairstyle signifying a Maasai warrior. All young Maasai boys grow up dreaming of becoming warriors.

In "Eunoto," a Maasai ceremony that happens about once every 14 years, every male of warrior age has his head shaved (and sometimes the eyebrows) to symbolize equality of all the warriors as one age set. Since circumcisions happen over a 7-year period, senior and junior warrior classes are created between the older and younger warriors. After this day, all warriors are considered of equal status, but younger warriors are still to respect their elder warriors.

After being shaved, warriors come together and perform their famous jumping dance. They can do this for 6 hours straight!

Warriors preparing "Imotori" soup, a medicinal concoction which tends to make warriors courageous and helps them deal with stress. It consists of differing traditional roots and leaves of local trees and plants.

To make this medicinal soup, leaves with medicinal properties are soaked in sheep's blood.

The local Catholic Church in Lashaine Village

A buffalo track compared to a human handprint. Buffalo are considered to be the most dangerous wild animal in Northern Tanzania. They are responsible for many human deaths each year. If you see one, locals instruct you to take off your backpack and lay stomach-down on the ground to avoid being gorded to death by the animal's powerful horns. (We are sure that the animal knows not to step on you while lying on the ground underneath it...)

A Maasai woman collects muddy water from a once-clean, full watering hole. Since rains haven't fallen here since April, this is her only option for water with which to clean clothing, cook for her family and even drink.

Haley gets her future read by a Liboni, a Maasai medicine man. Her reading indicated that she would have a good life because she smiles a lot and also that she would marry an indigenous man (we think the last part was a little skewed for personal interest...)