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15 juillet 2013

Tsumu n'djema wa aïd m'baraka

Tsumu n'djema wa aïd m'baraka
Ramadan started last Wednesday. People started rushing into various markets and supermarkets to buy the necessary food for the feast before the fast. In Mayotte, celebratory foods include mabawas (chicken wings), green bananas, cassava, breadfruit, goat...
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Tags: mayotte,  salouva,  sea,  culture,  ramadan,  allah,  evil eye,  faith,  highway code,  mubarak,  muslim,  purification,  rite,  ritual,  spirit
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24 juin 2013

Dramatic

Dramatic
For the last six months, three colleagues and I have been doing a drama workshop with the kids at school. I filed it as a "school project" at the end of last year, so the Vice-Rectorate (high education authority) gave the school a grant of seven hundred...
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Tags: mayotte,  pupils,  school,  beach,  english,  market,  french,  kids,  culture,  drama,  history,  polygamy,  props,  stage,  violence
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21 janvier 2013

Right. Where do I start?

Right. Where do I start?
I am frequently asked what my students' level of English is like. It is, after all, their third language after Shimaorese and French... and it's not as though they speak the first two properly. English is very difficult for most of the kids. Their fluency...
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Tags: school,  teacher,  english,  students,  test,  word,  bob,  both,  culture,  elvis,  language,  marley,  neither,  noun,  presley,  verb,  whereas
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