Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.

19 novembre 2012

High heels and red carpets

On Saturday, we went to the annual Fashion Salon in M'Gombani. Except that this year, we didn't just go round the stalls outside which were selling colourful African printed material and bamboo sticks: we stayed for the fashion show itself. It started...

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Tags: indian ocean, mayotte, clothes, mgombani, mode, salon, chiromani, designers, fashion, heels, lace, model, satin, show, silk

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12 novembre 2012

Dancing on Tanaraki

The friends we had over during the holidays were a girl my age and her mother, both of whom we'd met while doing a musical exchange between our Poitiers folk group and theirs, near the Puy du Fou in the Vendée region. So to keep them busy, we decided...

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Tags: beach, accordion, music, recorder, friend, dance, violin, percussion, tanaraki

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29 octobre 2012

Glass-bottomed boats make the world go round

There are several companies which offer boat trips in and around the lagoon, generally to see whales and dolphins. We'd heard of one which had a boat with a glass bottom, so we put our names down and took our friends out in that for the day. We went over...

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Tags: island, mayotte, water, whale, white, coral, reef, beach, boat, sand, aquarium, dolphin, glass

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22 octobre 2012

Turtling

We've had friends from France over this week. This is the first time people have come into my flat to stay, but everything went well. After taking them to a beach near our flat for starters, we went to N'Gouja beach to go turtle-hunting. N'Gouja is about...

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Tags: mayotte, green, black, barrier, coral, beach, sea, friend, swim, turtle, hawksbill, moya, ngouja, seagrass

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15 octobre 2012

The Second Annual Folk Ball

We held our Second Annual Folk Ball in Mamoudzou at the end of September. Good fun, and much better organized than the first time. The first time we tried to do this, there were three different groups : Philippe and I, called "Philem", the group I showed...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, accordion, bretons, guitar, music, recorder, mgombani, dance, ball, cider, folk, mjc, pancakes, violin

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10 septembre 2012

Sea's out.

Last weekend, yet another beautiful day, how tiring ;). School has been back for three weeks, so like every other teacher on the island, we went to the beach. At low tide. Very low tide. So low that we could actually walk right up to the coral reef drop-off,...

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Tags: mayotte, water, school, emily, coral, fish, sea, philip, tide

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20 août 2012

M'lima Choungui

Last Sunday, we did a very touristy and rather stupid thing. We decided to go up the Mount Choungui, known as M'lima Choungui. We'd seen it plenty of times from a distance, we have friends who've gone up it, and it was starting to seem as though everybody...

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Tags: mayotte, food, water, root, choungui, friend, stones, down, mountain, up, view

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2 août 2012

M'biwi Contest II : been there, done that, the t-shirt didn't fit.

Thought you might be interested in seeing what the m'biwi contest was actually like. Quite impressive actually. M'biwi contest

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, mbiwi, music, dance, contest

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30 juillet 2012

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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12 juillet 2012

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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Tags: music, dance, men, chigoma, washing-machine

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