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23 février 2015

N'Gouja, probably for the last time.

N'Gouja, probably for the last time.
It's the holidays next week, so this weekend was really the last one before the holidays on which to go to the beach. I don't go that often - not really interested in lying around in the heat, and not bothered about salty water and small fish - but H...
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Tags: humidity,  mayotte,  temperature,  heat,  colleague,  water,  coral,  fish,  reef,  beach,  photo,  underwater,  road,  camera,  turtle,  tropical,  computer,  ngouja,  electronic,  equipment
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8 septembre 2014

The beginning of the end: my last back-to-school rush in Mayotte.

The beginning of the end: my last back-to-school rush in Mayotte.
School started again on August 25th. In Mayotte, the teaching profession has one of the highest turnovers I've ever seen. This year, only three new colleagues joined the English-teaching ranks in my school. Two had been teaching in various lycées before...
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Tags: mayotte,  black,  class,  pupils,  school,  teacher,  white,  table,  students,  computer,  back to school,  european,  board,  chair,  classroom,  videoprojector
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6 janvier 2014

Overseas Women

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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27 mai 2013

Don't talk rubbish. Please.

Don't talk rubbish. Please.
Discussion with my computer students about statistics. "When we say 'Sales have picked up', what does that mean? Are sales going up or down?" "Miss, 'pick up' means 'ramasser' in French." "Right, and when we pick something up, what do we do with it?"...
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28 janvier 2013

Training the Future

Training the Future
Just before the Christmas holidays, the company I work for outside school asked me to teach English to a group of students training to become computer technicians. A group of ten to fifteen people aged anywhere between 16 and 40, whom I would be teaching...
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8 octobre 2012

Let the Teacher do the Work

Let the Teacher do the Work
Recently, I've been taking my kids into the computer room. For a start, there are 15 computers, 4 of which don't work but which all the kids absolutely want to try anyway, "I'm sure I can make it work, Miss". Of course, they can't, so we all get frustrated....
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Tags: mayotte,  mzungu,  school,  teacher,  students,  computer,  finish,  headache,  kids
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