Tadfalez describes her family tree. She lists the jobs she did as a child, such as guarding the fields, grinding seeds, and collecting firewood. She describes the roles of the dogs and cats in the household. Tadfalez relates that they had a good, warm relationship with their Christian neighbors. However, when she travelled to the market in the city of Gondar, she would experience insults and racist comments from the local population.

She got married at the age of 11. Tadfalez describes her own arranged marriage and explains the custom itself. For the first years of her marriage, until she matured and became stronger, she would leave her mother-in-law’s house each winter and go back to the house where she lived with her parents and grandparents.

Tadfalez gave birth to her first child when she was 14. She explains that custom dictates that the first three children can be born at the wife’s parents’ home, and after that she gives birth in her own home. She also describes the customs observed following childbirth and the stay in the menstruation house.

Tadfalez gave birth to eight children, including two daughters who died in infancy. The first of these, died at age eight months of an unknown disease after an illness of only three days. When her second daughter was 20 days old, she contracted a disease commonly known as Toem that causes the patient’s body to become red. She died two days later. Tadfalez describes the customs of mourning they observed and the communal support they received.

She also describes what they used to do in case of illness, and what homemade treatments were available. She describes cases in which they used to ride on donkeys to the clinics in Teda and Azozo. She describes and what communal customs were observed. She also talks about diseases of domestic animals.

Tadfalez demonstrates and explains how they made cotton thread for weaving, and explains where and in what season they made it.