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

6 février 2014

The Box.

Sent: 06 January 2014. Received: 03 February 2014. Not too bad. Boxes and parcels always take about a month. Except that this particular one was coming from the UK, which the Mahorese customs weren't too sure about. They sent me a letter the week before...

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Tags: mayotte, box, cat, post, send, letter, post office, england, customs, uk

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3 février 2014

Total Jumbo Strike

There are two big strikes going on at the moment. And being Mayotte, where nothing really ever goes as planned, they're both worth a mention. The first - and bigger - is the Total strike. Total is the one and only petrol provider in Mayotte, the group...

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Tags: france, mayotte, car, petrol, strike, supermarket, decree, job, jumbo, queue, reform, score, total, victorin lurel

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28 janvier 2014

Happy Birthday Papi !

Happy Birthday Papi ! Lots of love, Em xxx

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Tags: emily, birthday, happy, papi, love

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27 janvier 2014

Cyclone Alert

Last week, we had a cyclone exercise at school. Much more interesting than your average fire drill, where everyone just lines up under the big tree in the playground, and not as awkward as the earthquake simulation, where they all have to fit under the...

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Tags: mayotte, school, teacher, quiet, lessons, test, kids, activity, alert, cyclone, exercise, instructions, vice-rectorate

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20 janvier 2014

Thank You For A Lovely Christmas Holiday.

Family photos. A lovely Christmas was had by all. Lots of people, lots of presents, lots of games, lots of tablet computers. At one point, there were seven of us playing silly games on our various tablets while watching a film. Lots of food, too. A month's...

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Tags: holiday, english, flute, music, family, dorchester, french, england, present, museum, bach, brandenburg, chocolate, cinema, concerto, ilkley, knitting, tablet, tank, wareham

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13 janvier 2014

Pink bags and blue boxes

In Mayotte, people don't fret about big travel bags, careful packaging, luggage straps and padlocks. They don't worry about their big black case being indistinguishable from everybody else's big black cases on the luggage carousel. They don't bother repackaging...

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Tags: france, mayotte, box, england, trip, cooler, ice, luggage, plane, travel

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6 janvier 2014

Overseas Women

There was a national photography competition in France not long ago, whose title was: "Overseas Women". As the Mahorese people didn't like the results, saying they weren't representative enough of women in the French overseas territories, they had their...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, women, photo, work, hair, computer, ferry, jasmine, smartphone

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30 décembre 2013

Sleeping Bouéni

In England or France, shopkeepers and shop assistants are always on their toes. And on yours, half of the time. They're always alert, they're always looking for something to offer you to make you stay a little longer and buy something else. They'll say...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, shop, bouéni, market, sleep, customer, douka, service

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23 décembre 2013

Going Swimming At School

The rainy season in in full flow now. This is a short video taken by one of my colleagues at school, a day when 9.2mm of rain fell in two hours accompanied by a pounding thunderstorm that made the headmistress decide to cut off the school's electricity...

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Tags: water, kawéni, pupils, school, rain, students, rainy season, swimming, pool

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16 décembre 2013

Idiots

I read an article the other day which began like this : "When you’re driving, everybody else on the road is an idiot and it’s your job to watch out". In Mayotte, driving is more than just a daily occurrence aiming to get a person from point A to point...

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Tags: mayotte, car, road, driving, idiot

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