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

8 novembre 2011

Good morning all.

A quick hello from underwater, when I went diving with a colleague's husband !

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Tags: water, diving, mask, oxygen, underwater, bottle

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7 novembre 2011

Photo albums

Underwater photo of anemones and little fish, taken by a colleague's daughter with an underwater camera. I've just added a photo album to the blog, called "Blue Lagoon". It shows photos of the lagoon, above and under the water, some corals and fish, sandy...

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Tags: lagoon, newspaper, strike, coral, fish, beach, sand, album, photo, underwater, bag, bin, dark, people, rubbish, town

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6 novembre 2011

Music in Mayotte

This is the music group I’ve been with for a month so far. The level isn’t brilliant, but we get on well and are happy playing together. The group is called L'Amicale des Bretons de Mayotte. Marion plays the flute, the accordion and the piano. She started...

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Tags: mayotte, school, accordion, acdc, brassens, bretons, flute, francoise, guitar, lessons, marion, martine, maxime, music, recorder

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29 octobre 2011

Sandy Islands

Yesterday, the school closed at midday to avoid taking any risks linked to demonstrations, road-blocking, car-burning or stone-throwing, which seem to have become rather fashionable local pastimes. Faced with a long week-end, as Tuesday – 1st of November,...

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Tags: white, beautiful, coral, diving, fish, beach, blue, boat, oxygen, sand, sea

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23 octobre 2011

Raving about Diving

An interesting morning spent diving in the lagoon today! Called a baptême de plongée, it’s an initiation to diving where everything is done for you, the idea is really to see if you like it and if you’re capable of not panicking underwater. Hippocampe...

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Tags: water, colour, barrier, beautiful, certificate, coral, diploma, diving, fish, hippocampe, mask, passe en s, peace, plongée, reef

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22 octobre 2011

Sans Queue Ni Tête

A rather eventful morning today, because as it’s been fairly calm for the last 24 hours, I wanted to see if the supermarkets had reopened. Unprepared as always, I saw a great long queue in front of the local Sodifram and decided to join the fray. Again,...

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Tags: rice, strike, supermarket, pasta, quiet, security, shop, sodifram, toilet paper, watermelon

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20 octobre 2011

Opting out

Mad at CRS riot police. This morning, while setting off for school, a colleague rang to say that he'd heard that there weren't any lessons today. Once there, some said that lessons should continue as normal - public service - whereas others said that...

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Tags: mzungu, school, strike, supermarket, death, demonstrator, injury, lesson, opt out, ransack, riot, white

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18 octobre 2011

The Gold Rush

Things have been a little complicated recently. First, the strikes started because of the cost of living here. For example : 4.20€ for a 1kg packet of rice, 2.83€ for three large potatoes and 3.50€ for a packet of butter. "Essential" products here are...

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Tags: mayotte, food, mzungu, pupils, butter, chicken wings, cost, dustbin, gas, hunger, living, mabawas, rice, strike, supermarket

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30 septembre 2011

The Dark Side of Mayotte

Most of the time, Mayotte is postcard-pretty and the people are lovely. But it isn't "home" yet. It’s not that I don’t like coconut trees and papaya fruit, having the lagoon just next door and going to school on a scooter. I do. But some things take a...

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Tags: mayotte, house, lagoon, water, dirty, electricity, postcard, pretty

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29 septembre 2011

He runs... he strikes !

It was the school cross-country race today. All teachers and staff had to be present, even those on their day off, which happened to be my case. We were sent into the undergrowth to cheer the students on and to give out water and sugar where necessary....

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Tags: mayotte, food, girl, mzungu, school, teacher, boy, colour, country, cross, expensive, petrol, price, salary

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