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29 décembre 2014

A Family Christmas

A Family Christmas

This year, the Cooper Christmas commenced, continued and ceased in a rather categorical fashion. We had moments of present-giving and new clothes... Smiles and silly hats... Moments of intense concentration... Games... Screens... Arty-farty photos......

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Tags: english, mum, christmas, family, camera, nanny, england, present, papi, accent, sewing box

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22 décembre 2014

It's a beautiful place, really.

It's a beautiful place, really.

There have been a couple of rather pretty-pretty series of photos of Mayotte around recently. Two projects, in fact. The first was the Vanilla Islands project: an effort to put forward Mayotte, Reunion and the Seychelles on the touristic scene. We did...

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Tags: island, mayotte, beautiful, coral, photo, vanilla, turtle, dolphin, tourism, tourist, drone

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15 décembre 2014

The teacher is in the hammock.

The teacher is in the hammock.

A colleague used to draw these cartoons about Mahorese women, known as bouénis. This is one he drew for me, turning the bouénis into English teachers... hard at work!

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Tags: mayotte, women, colleague, school, teacher, boueni, work, mahorese, cartoon, hammock

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8 décembre 2014

Rain at School

It's been raining quite a bit recently. This is the effect of all this rain on my school: quite impressive, actually. Everything and everyone gets soaked five minutes in, the kids go swimming in the puddles, bags and books included, and you can't hear...

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Tags: water, pupils, school, teacher, bottle, bag, rain, room, swimming, pool, umbrella, football, everywhere, plastic

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1 décembre 2014

The Fashion Salon

The Fashion Salon

The Fashion Salon was last weekend. Not usually the type of event I go for, but there are few enough events of any sort in Mayotte for me to try and go to the ones there are. On Saturday evening, there was the fashion show and competition. Every year,...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, clothes, dress, november, salon, dance, sing, fashion, chigoma

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