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

29 décembre 2014

A Family Christmas

This year, the Cooper Christmas commenced, continued and ceased in a rather categorical fashion. We had moments of present-giving and new clothes... Smiles and silly hats... Moments of intense concentration... Games... Screens... Arty-farty photos......

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Tags: english, mum, christmas, family, camera, nanny, england, present, papi, accent, sewing box

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22 décembre 2014

It's a beautiful place, really.

There have been a couple of rather pretty-pretty series of photos of Mayotte around recently. Two projects, in fact. The first was the Vanilla Islands project: an effort to put forward Mayotte, Reunion and the Seychelles on the touristic scene. We did...

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Tags: island, mayotte, beautiful, coral, photo, vanilla, turtle, dolphin, tourism, tourist, drone

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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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1 décembre 2014

The Fashion Salon

The Fashion Salon was last weekend. Not usually the type of event I go for, but there are few enough events of any sort in Mayotte for me to try and go to the ones there are. On Saturday evening, there was the fashion show and competition. Every year,...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, clothes, dress, november, salon, dance, sing, fashion, chigoma

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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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17 novembre 2014

Labattoir

The 11th of November was Armistice Day. A bank holiday. I'd been looking forward to sleeping in and having a nice lazy day, knowing I would be playing bridge in the evening and that I had a bit of marking to do. A colleague of mine, however, didn't quite...

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Tags: ceremony, pupils, school, november, french, letter, 11, armistice, foreign, labattoir, legion, military, monument, russian, soldier

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10 novembre 2014

Raindrops aren't falling. Period.

The only existing postcard of Mayotte during the rainy season. The rainy season has just started. Just. As in two days ago. This is worrying the meteorologists. You see, Mayotte usually gets two lots of rain. A small spell, which usually comes some time...

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Tags: water, postcard, newspaper, mango, rain, november, rainy season, dry, sky, october, hollande, january, president

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3 novembre 2014

N'Gouja at sunset.

The place goes crazy about once a year, fighting over things such as salaries, football matches and the price of chicken wings, but Mayotte can also be a very beautiful place when it sets its mind to it. These photos were taken last week at the most touristic...

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Tags: mayotte, mzungu, white, beautiful, beach, photo, sun, turtle, ngouja, sunset, afternoon, wednesday, weekend

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27 octobre 2014

Ngazidja

"Salam aleikoum." "Aleikoum salam. Gawamnono?" "Ndjema, hamdulillah!" I've just got back from a week's holiday in Ngazidja, the largest of the four Comoros islands. They are known as Ngazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli), Ndzuani (Anjouan) and Maoré...

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Tags: island, mayotte, house, holiday, shop, construction, anjouan, painting, comoros, volcano, grande comore, hamdulillah, mitsamiouli, mohéli, moroni, mwali, ndzuani, ngazidja, salam aleikoum, site

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