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

8 juin 2015

Protests in the Classroom

Recently, just for the fun of it, I thought I'd get my kids riled up about something. So I started a nice, light and cheery series of lessons about world problems: racism, discrimination, poverty, starvation, the environment, war, deforestation, animal...

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Tags: mayotte, school, rubbish, clandestine, immigration, martin luther king, kids, violence, room, rape, classroom, litter, attack, discrimination, dream, environment, poster, racism, segregation, speech

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25 mai 2015

Salouvas for All

Clockwise from top left: Samianti, Nisma, me, Nadhrati, Moinécha, Moinécha's boyfriend Matthias (who ended up in the photo for some reason), Hoby, Chaharazadi, Djaha, Nabaouya, Laïla and Nassifanya. And the odd unrecognizable fuzzy student. My kids have...

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Tags: girl, salouva, school, teacher, blue, students, miss, samoussa, same

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6 avril 2015

Stop Hitting the Teachers.

Recently, things have been heating up at school. We've always had stories of kids threatening teachers: a common threat here is something along the lines of "I'll kill you and your family", and that happens pretty often, especially when a kid has received...

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Tags: kawéni, school, teacher, students, violence, sport, backpack, attack, authority, confrontation, insult, retaliate, retort, threat

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30 mars 2015

Dictionaries in an English lesson.

This is what happened when I asked some of the girls in my class to give out the dictionaries. They walked all round the classroom with a couple of dictionaries on their heads, handed the dictionaries out to the other students, went back to the cupboard...

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Tags: girl, pupils, school, teacher, students, work, dictionary

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23 mars 2015

Dictée Bolé

This weekend, I took part in a quintessentially French way of spending a fun Saturday afternoon. As part of the Language Week, a local association had organized a Grand Dictation in order to promote language awareness among schoolchildren and adults....

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Tags: mayotte, teacher, saturday, french, afternoon, dembeni, dictation, lecturer, text, university, write

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16 février 2015

What do you want to be when you're older? Dunno, miss...

Saturday was Job Forum day at school. Some well-intentioned and better-organized-than-the-others teachers had been collecting people for a few months now, people who came from different job horizons and who had agreed to come to our school and talk about...

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Tags: class, pupils, school, teacher, security, photo, group, job, aquaculture, forum, nurse

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15 décembre 2014

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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24 novembre 2014

Transfer time.

It's transfer time. The server opened yesterday, so I've been busy choosing where I want to go next year. Not that I actually get an awful lot of say in the matter, but I do get a chance to express my wishes, if in vain most of the time. In French education...

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Tags: france, mayotte, colleague, school, teacher, french, north, section, civil servant, academy, compliment, education, international, lille, normal, paperwork, points, server, transfer, translation

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