Small Talk

For the men, it is a very indicative series of questions...

What is your church?
Do you drink?
Where is your boyfriend?

For the women, my answers to their standard questions are, without fail, met with laughter and disbelief.

Do you have children?
Do you do your own washing?
Why isn’t your husband here?

(and yes I do my own washing...they seem to think azungu women can’t)

My Name...

No matter how I introduce myself, they always morph my name into Maggie. Those who don’t know my name call me Madame, sister, auntie, or Azungu.