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

18 mai 2015

Mamoudzou By Night

I was sent on an espionage mission the other day. A friend of mine suspected his wife of cheating on him, and had asked me to go to a Senegalese party which she was planning to attend in order to check if the new boyfriend was there. When I got there,...

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Tags: mamoudzou, photo, rain, night, scene, senegalese

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11 mai 2015

Market Day Has Gone Forever

There used to be two markets in Mamoudzou. The official one, and the clandestine one. The official one is under cover, in a fairly recent building where sellers rent out spaces the size of your average garage for 120€/month. Pretty expensive by Mahorese...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, fruit, clothes, dark, market, clandestine, smell, damp, destroy, hygienic, official, vegetables

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4 mai 2015

Carnival commemorating the Abolition of Slavery

Slavery Abolition Day was on April 27th, and brought with it a bank holiday, a closed exhibition, a time-wasting conference and a small carnival. These photos are of the participants in said carnival. There weren't very many groups, only about six or...

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Tags: mayotte, april, abolition, carnival, slavery, 27

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27 avril 2015

Voulé à Musicale Plage

I was invited to a company voulé the other day, a barbecue on the beach with the company I work with giving English lessons to adults. The rainy season is reaching its end now, but there are still some strong bursts of rain occasionally, and I was caught...

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Tags: banana, food, chicken wings, beach, english, barbecue, kebab, voulé, meat, company, eat, full

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20 avril 2015

UNICEF Heroes Day

Yesterday was UNICEF Heroes Day: a worldwide, running-applications-and-various-other-gadgets-connected run whose goal was to raise money to vaccinate children. The idea was to get everybody to run 10 kilometres and connect via various running or fitness-based...

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Tags: t-shirt, blue, photo, race, run, children, money, day, 10km, application, charity, competition, connection, donate, donation, hero, shoelaces, ten, unicef, vaccinate

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13 avril 2015

Versailles and Vienna

You might vaguely remember these posters. The music school organized a concert at the beginning of February whose theme was "the Royal Celebrations of Versailles". It was such a success - the first classical concert of the year, so 250 people came - that...

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Tags: school, guitar, music, recorder, concert, play, violin, church, piano, cello, viola, university, valse, versailles, video, vienna, waltz

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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 mars 2015

Lille again.

As Nanny and Papi know from a rather frantic Facetime chat some time last week, I've been in Lille for the last week and a half, looking for a flat. It wasn't supposed to go that way. Originally, H and I had planned to spend the school holidays together...

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Tags: flat, house, money, euro, thousand, lille, bank, estate agent

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