Realistic Fosters, kinda - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

pitbulllady · 10-21-2006, 09:51 AM

I can't really picture Wilt's "species" as "animals", but more like a tribe of people. I know that there are certain tribes in East Africa which are typically very tall, and the people carry themselves with this stately bearing that Wilt often has. Their warriors are very lean, tall and sinewy in built and pride themselves on endurance and resistance to pain. I used to work with an exchange teacher from Kenya who was of the Masai tribe, and she told me that their children were taught to walk with that proud, upright stance by having a round pebble placed on top of their heads, and they had to walk and eventually RUN without the pebble rolling off. This was, as she explained, to teach them to be ever-vigilant, and to avoid having physical problems related to poor posture later on in life. I can easily picture a group of warriors/hunters, all much like Wilt, trekking across the Serengetti for days on end, in search of game, adorned with colorful robes and beads, their posture never faltering in spite of the heat and drought, while being ever-alert not only for food, but the threat of lions and other predators, or enemy tribes.

pitbulllady

10-21-2006, 09:51 AM	#12
pitbulllady Co-Administrator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,276	I can't really picture Wilt's "species" as "animals", but more like a tribe of people. I know that there are certain tribes in East Africa which are typically very tall, and the people carry themselves with this stately bearing that Wilt often has. Their warriors are very lean, tall and sinewy in built and pride themselves on endurance and resistance to pain. I used to work with an exchange teacher from Kenya who was of the Masai tribe, and she told me that their children were taught to walk with that proud, upright stance by having a round pebble placed on top of their heads, and they had to walk and eventually RUN without the pebble rolling off. This was, as she explained, to teach them to be ever-vigilant, and to avoid having physical problems related to poor posture later on in life. I can easily picture a group of warriors/hunters, all much like Wilt, trekking across the Serengetti for days on end, in search of game, adorned with colorful robes and beads, their posture never faltering in spite of the heat and drought, while being ever-alert not only for food, but the threat of lions and other predators, or enemy tribes. pitbulllady