Digital Story from the Bawso Stories Project. In this story, Chosen describes how a visit to St Fagans National Museum of History reminded her of the traditional blankets in Kenya. Seeing the blankets in the museum brings back memories of school and creates connections between Welsh and Kenyan life. English transcript: So, when I first went to a boarding school, that was in primary school, I was in class five. So, in the requirements list they listed that you should have the blankets, but we were supposed to have only one blanket. Ok, we call it a Massai Shuka in my country. I don’t know how to call it here. It is a Massai Shuka. So, you first of all spread a bedsheet and then a blanket and then the Massai Shuka, which everyone was supposed to have it because it was making the dormitories the same colour of the Massai Shuka, so it was a must have it thing. At that time, I didn’t know about the duvet, so the duvets were introduced when I was in high school, but again, you wouldn’t be admitted to high school with a duvet, because it is meant to be like… you’re going there to learn, you’re not going there to school to be comfortable. So, they would do anything to make you uncomfortable, and by the blankets, of course, you wouldn’t be comfortable during the cold times, but you need to survive because you’ve gone there to school. Schools in my country are very tough. They are very tough. You’re not supposed to be comfortable. You will eat the food that you’re eating. It’s not comfortable. So, you just have to work hard and finish your four years there and just go back home. So, back at home we also had several blankets, but when they introduced the duvet also, my mum like gave out all the blankets to the brothers and the sisters who came from the village too, so they will also start life. Now we upgraded to the duvets. So, I would say the duvet are better than the blankets, and if you saw the place we had been sleeping in the museum, it looked so cold. So I don’t know how they survived on the blankets, because some of them they were torn and there was only one on every bed. So, I assume it was very tough also for them having blankets. I wouldn’t go to the blankets.