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

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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29 septembre 2014

Urahafu Na Unono

On Friday, following various complaints from teachers regarding the dirtiness of the school as a whole and the rooms in particular, one of my colleagues launched "Operation Urahafu Na Unono", or "Operation Cleanliness" in the school. This operation had...

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Tags: kawéni, school, teacher, white, clean, board, window, brush, floor, mop, sponge, stairs, tidy, urahafu na unono

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22 septembre 2014

Here we go again...

This time, it all started with a football match. Majicavo and Kawéni, two neighbouring villages, were playing against each other. Majicavo was winning 3 - 0 when the referee gave a player a yellow card instead of the red card he should have given him....

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Tags: water, kawéni, car, riot, barrier, boat, violin, violence, football, smash, window, block, burn, gang

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15 septembre 2014

Cats and Miss.

School's been back for three weeks now. I've met all my classes, and there's everything from sweetness and light to ear-splitting caterwauling in there. These are some photos of my school. Right at the top is the tropical almond (Terminalia Catappa, if...

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Tags: mayotte, cat, food, dress, salouva, kawéni, pupils, school, teacher, tree, students, miss, building, badamier, litter, mew, playground

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2 juin 2014

Wenka

I'm currently writing a lesson plan on graffiti and street art, the idea being to teach the kids what the point of each is and how to tell the difference. As there are a lot of tags here, I wanted to start off with pictures of graffiti around their home...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, box, house, kawéni, mzungu, car, photo, village, kids, letter, street, wenka

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23 décembre 2013

Going Swimming At School

The rainy season in in full flow now. This is a short video taken by one of my colleagues at school, a day when 9.2mm of rain fell in two hours accompanied by a pounding thunderstorm that made the headmistress decide to cut off the school's electricity...

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Tags: water, kawéni, pupils, school, rain, students, rainy season, swimming, pool

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2 septembre 2013

Here we go again.

School's back. Again. The yearly rush of pupils who have been hanging around the school doors for a good week now, staying outside all day and convincing their parents that classes had already started up, thereby getting out of working in the fields and...

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Tags: mayotte, stuff, colleague, kawéni, pupils, school, teacher, back to school, book, pen, rentrée, room, staff

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20 mai 2013

Kawéni

My school and most of my pupils belong to the village of Kawéni, between Mamoudzou and Majicavo-Lamir. Both village and school have quite a reputation. The village is known for being the starting point of most of the complaints, robberies, strikes and...

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Tags: mayotte, kawéni, school, people, mangrove, village, clandestine, immigration, mountain, sugar, industrial, roundabout, shack, slum

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24 août 2011

School has started.

School started today, with the teachers getting together and meeting the heads. Quite an exotic-looking school, with coconut trees and banana trees growing in the playgrounds. The rooms themselves are pretty run-down, with flaking paint, windows that...

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Tags: mamoudzou, clothes, kishali, salouva, black, canteen, class, holiday, kawéni, mzungu, pupils, school, teacher

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