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30 juillet 2012

It's cold outside.

It's cold outside.

Winter has arrived, the shortest day of the year has come and gone, and it's getting cold outside. This said, being Mayotte, cold is an entirely relative notion. We're not talking sub-zero temperatures and snow. We're talking twenty-five degrees, cool...

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Tags: t-shirt, water, beach, tree, leaves, wind, towel, cold, cool, tea, warm

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23 juillet 2012

Ben and Toirfia

Ben and Toirfia

We went to our Very First Grand Wedding on Friday. Just part of it. Grand Weddings in Mayotte generally take place in the austral winter months, read from June to September. Weddings here are very ritualised occasions. For months before the wedding, the...

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Tags: food, ceremony, salouva, women, henna, wedding, m'biwi, kofia, make-up, marriage, men, money, parade

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16 juillet 2012

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I think you would be horrified if you saw the state your parcels arrived in. That's why they're going on the blog. The packages shown above are presents that Mum, Nanny and Papi sent me, a colourful top and a batch of Economists. The beanies you sent...

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Tags: box, clothes, t-shirt, beanie, birthday, economist, envelope, fragile, hat, package, packet, parcel, post, send

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12 juillet 2012

A few days later...

A few days later...

The men's dance, chigoma, followed a few days later. Naturally enough, being a Mahorese event, it started an hour late, but it was interesting. To dance chigoma, you stand in single file and shuffle forward, first one foot, left, forward, then the other,...

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9 juillet 2012

M'biwi Contest

On a Sunday at the end of last month, there was the 2nd M'biwi Contest. M'biwi is a ceremony which is generally practised during weddings or other big occasions. It's a women's ceremony. They sit on the floor and bang two pieces of bamboo together to...

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Tags: mayotte, ceremony, girl, mbiwi, salouva, women, traditional, dance, contest, sing, wedding

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2 juillet 2012

Tyred flat out.

Tyred flat out.

On Saturday, there was the Grand Tyre Race in Mamoudzou. Hundreds of people had come to race and to watch, as this is THE big event of the year in Mayotte. The idea is to race for 2.2km through the capital city, driving a used tyre in front of oneself...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, tyres, boy, grease, race, run, tyre racing, yoghurt, face paint, prize, soap

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