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    My Maasai Life: From Suburbia to Savannah

    By Robin Wiszowaty

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    Growing up in suburban Illinois, Robin Wiszowaty leads a typical middle-class American life. Hers is a world of gleaming shopping malls, congested freeways, and neighborhood gossip. But from an early age, she has longed to break free of this existence and discover something deeper. What it is, she doesn't quite know. Yet she knows in her heart there simply has to be more.

    Through a fortunate twist of fate, Robin seizes an opportunity to travel to rural Kenya and join an impoverished Maasai community. Suddenly her days are spent hauling water, evading giraffes, and living in a tiny hut made of cow dung with her adoptive family. She is forced to face issues she's never considered: extreme poverty, drought, female circumcision, corruption and discovers love in the most unexpected places. In the open wilds of the dusty savannah, this Maasai life is one she could never have imagined.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMe to We
    Release dateJul 1, 2010
    ISBN9781553658238
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    • 4/5
      I believe I was this first to borrow this book since we added it to our collection last year but it was a great read. It tells the story of an American college student who lives with a Maasai tribe in Africa for a year. Her experiences and descriptions are fascinating and honest. She returns home and endures reverse culture shock as she transitions back into a Western lifestyle. The struggles and challenges as well as the love story that takes place in the background of this book are really interesting and a great reminder of the uneven distribution of wealth on our world and the unfortunate pitfalls of materialism. i will recommend this to my advanced intermediate readers and middle school students. Students attending a MEtoWe conference or event will enjoy this publication.
    • 5/5
      From my book review blog Rundpinne."After high school and during college it is not uncommon for one to question what one wants out of life, however, rarely does one hear a student declare they are selling their belongings to live with a semi-nomadic tribe in Kenya, yet this is what Robin Wiszowaty did and writes about in her memoir My Maasai Life.Robin grew up in a nice middle-class family with two siblings and two loving parents yet something just was not settled in her. While in college she decided she needed to distance herself and before long her parents were bidding her safe travels as she boarded a plan for Kenya. After a few weeks in Nairobi taking Swahili lessons and learning about the Maasai, the semi-nomadic tribe she would be living with in the southern region of the Great Rift Valley, she found herself in her second home, being greeted by her Mama and by her Kokoo, who together gave her the Maasai name of Naserian and soon found herself meeting her four new brothers and two new sisters.My Maasai Life is an extraordinarily beautiful and blunt look at life in Kenya, primarily in Maasailand, through the eyes of a young, middle-class American whose experience living as part of the Maasai proves to be an invaluable lesson. Wiszowaty writes about her experiences in a beautiful and reverent manner, the reader will feel as though they are witnessing what Robin is experiencing as she takes the reader through the day-to-day activities as well as the cultural differences, practices, and beliefs. The similarities and differences are astonishing and a reader would be hard pressed to come away from this book unchanged. Wiszowaty wants the reader to understand the Maasai, to see the beauty they see, share in their joys, sorrows and of course the suffering brought on by poverty. Words truly fail me when I try to describe how profoundly this memoir affected me. It is my hope that all readers will pick-up a copy of My Maasai Life, if for no other reason than it is an unforgettable memoir."