The knitting Maasae, by Adriana

Today on the walk back from the school, after buying a couple of yards of cloth from a local vendor, we were stopped by a Maasae woman who noticed my knitting in my handback. She pointed at and and I pulled it out and asked if that was what she was looking at. She took the needles and amazingly began to knit! So I told her " WOW. . .you can knit!", then Christina asked if she could take her picture, and she said no, and stopped knitting. In order to get my knitting back I said that I had a gift for her. . .and handed her a finished dishcloth that I had finished knitting earlier in the day. She thanked me profusely, saying " Asante sana"(Thank you very much) over and over and displayed the dishcloth as if she was going to wear it as a piece of clothing or a hat.. . .which made us all laugh. She thanked me again as we were leaving.

Adriana