Zac the Maasai

So this Friday, at noon, I get on a bus with my friend Zac to spend the weekend in his village. While I'm in the village I'll sleep in a manyatta with Zac, a manyatta is a Maasai hut made out of cow dung. I will dress the same way as the Maasai and gaurd the herds with Zac during the day.
While I was on my safari to the Serengeti, we stopped at a Maasai village, I felt like the village was more specific to entertaining tourists, I wanted to expeirence what it was really like in a Maasai village, which I think I'll be able to have this weekend with Zac. While I was at the Maasai village on my safari I bought a calabash (a calabash is a hollowed out gourd that use like a Maasai version of a canteen) but I soon realised that the inside of the calabash smelled like a dead cow and I didn't want to drink anything out of it. Zac told me that when we go to his village his mother can make a wash for the calabash to clean it out and smell really nice. A Maasai's diet consist of milk, meat, and blood (blood being used in soup and some times being drinken during a ritual) resently they've started farming corn and beans to give them a better diet. The other volunteers said that if anyone is best suited for sleeping in a cow poo hut and drinking blood, it's me. On top of this being a great experience, it's also great stuff for the paper I'm writing for Hutchins about the cultural infuences the Maasai and Chagga have had on Tanzania.
Along with getting Maasai clothing and getting a clean calabash, Zac also said he will get me a Maasai spear. I already have one spear which I bought in the village Marangu, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, but I later realised it was more just an oranmental spear and wasn't very functional. The spear Zac will get for me will be a full on functioning, authentic Maasai spear which I will use while I'm out gaurding the herds with him. Maasai men also wear a large amount of jewlery, primarily necklaces, and Zac told me that his mother makes quiet a few and he will get one for me from her. The children in most Maasai villages know about three English words; pen, book, and money. They come up to tourists asking for these three things, they ask for pens and note books because they want supplies for going to school. So when I visit Zac's village I plan to bring lots of pens and note books, along with some candies and something like rice or sugar for Zac's mother. I'm not really sure what to bring for Zac's father, but I'll ask before we leave.