had favorite past times. Big boys and girls sometimes had mock circumcision festivals but since children weren't allowed to talk of circumcision, they called it branding. Other games included talus (shooting the bow, which was said to represent the bleeding of oxen), chemosiraitet (high jump) and kangetet (lifting the spear). Kechuiek, the almost universal game of bao was sometimes played by grown-up people though they did not make a board containing compartments as do many Bantu tribes but rather made holes in the earth in which they circulated seeds. Divisions of time The Kalenjin year (kenyit) started in February. It had two seasons known as olto (pl. oltosiek) and was divided into twelve months, arawet (pl. arawek). Seasons (oltosiek) The first season of the year, olt-ap-iwot (iwotet), was the wet season and ran from March to August. The dry season, olt-ap-keme (kemeut), ran from September to February. The kipsunde and kipsunde oieng harvest ceremonies were held in September and October respectively to mark the change in Seasons. Months (arawek) References Kalenjin