This photo was taken in April of 2010 in a rural village in Morocco. I had just been taught for the first time by my host sister, Soukaina, how to knot individual threads to weave a rug, and they allowed me to do two entire rows of colored knots in this rug. My 5-year-old host brother, Mohammed, is sitting in my lap and a ham for any camera. He is also faster and better at weaving than I am.