easter goatness

hi. happy easter.
on easter morning s picked me up with 3 masai guys to buy a goat for them as a gift. he knew one of them from somewhere near his church or something. in the car, one of them started singing making a lot of gutteral noises, it sounded really interesting and s said that he said that he can't sing too much because he could get into a trance...he might've been joking, i don't know. anyways, we went somewhere a little out of town and they bought the goat and s and i waited furthur away so that the price wouldn't increase... then they tied the goat up by it's neck and feet and put it in the back of the car. it seemed a little like the goat knew what was going to happen. it whined/whimpered once or twice and that made me feel a little sad... then we drove to the woods behind an apartment building where a lot of masais hang out/maybe live (?) and they suffocated the goat to death in order to keep all of the blood inside. then they cut it open and a couple of other men came over and they ate all of the fat and a lot of the innerds raw... they ate so voraciously that it actually made it look delicious- plus i was really hungry. s and i didn't eat any. he didn't seem like he would ever consider it, and i wasn't up for testing my stomach/taste buds etc.. they switched into speaking kimasai a lot of the time so s didn't understand what was being said then either. one guy was saying something to me in kimasai and seemed like he wanted an answer but i had no idea how or what to answer so i felt bad that he looked confused by my unfriendliness/inability to understand. also, there's something that a lot of masais use in their nose. they kind of rub it in. it's a brown powder. s said he tried it once and it made him see pink and red... i didn't really know what he meant by that but i thought that since they use it so casually/regularly, it must be pretty mild. one of them brought it over and i said i'd try it and s asked them to show me how to. but the second they started, i changed my mind and said no. one guy started sneezing, spitting, and snotting everywhere and within seconds of rubbing it into his nose the second guy's eyes started to bulge and look very affected and he started putting his fist into the air above his head- must have been powerful? anyways, then we waited around while they finished eating the raw parts and then we drove to s's dad's office to try and get something but the dad wasn't there. so we drove back and then decided not to wait for the meat to cook. s took some pics that he said he'll email to me and i can email them to you if you want to see.
after i got home, mama and baba vivien who live in the house attached to us invited me and my housemates over for their easter lunch. they had a lot of guests visiting from kenya. it was fun and the food was delicious. we watched cheetahs hunting and stuff like that on tv the whole time. it was fun. also, they have a big ugly red-eyed rabbit behind their house that just had bunnies which are really soft and cute.
then yesterday was another holiday and the whole day was really boring and i just stayed in the house. my housemate j had a high fever last night. also, the volunteer in moshi that i tried to visit that was sick with the same type of malaria that her sister died from suddenly went home to canada this week. she was getting more sick and she felt like she owed it to her family to go home, especially because she couldn't tell them that she was so sick...

not much other news. i'm pretty bored lately...