My bad. Haven't actually written that entry yet, maybe I will tonight or tomorrow. Currently we're back in Arusha recovering in a nice hotel from the past month of sleeping outside, getting up at 6 every day, and being so overwhelmed every single moment. I'll say now, Maasai homestay was incredible, spent SO much time with cows. Then we were off to lake Natron, which was another fun few days filled with midnight vocano hikes, 85 degree lows at night, and a stunning waterfall hike. On a few random side notes, that goat story in the last blog has turned me into a...gasp...vegetarian. It kinda feels like...finally to me. I realized it when I tried a piece of that goat later that night and it reminded me so much of the blood I drank earlier that I had to spit it out. Since then, I've had a fair amount of moral discussion among friends and haven't eaten meat since. I've been morally opposed to eating meat for a long time, but I've always been to lazy and gave too little fucks to actually care. But I've had a few moments here where I realize that simply: when I eat meat that means an animal has to die (and consequently unjustly suffer) for me to eat the meat. It's easy to ignore (and conversely horrifically worse) in America, but here I often see the animal just hours before it's served at dinner. Having a fair amount of veg heads on the trip has also prompted most of the food to be prepared both with and without meat. If I can eat a meal that tastes virtually the same, with similar nutritional value, and without having an animal suffer for me to do so,then why eat meat? Seems like selfish indulgence to me, but that's just me. I'm not one of those asshole veg heads who chastise others for doing so (yet...?), and no worries, I'm not a pretentious pescitarian or whatever that shit is that eats fish. That's stupid. Anyway, that's my little bit of morality discovered in the last week or so. Plus, next time someone asks what the last meat I ate was I can easily say it was warm blood fresh out of the goat.
PS. For Doops and Kelso: "aspleh-spleh"
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