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8 juin 2015

Protests in the Classroom

Recently, just for the fun of it, I thought I'd get my kids riled up about something. So I started a nice, light and cheery series of lessons about world problems: racism, discrimination, poverty, starvation, the environment, war, deforestation, animal...

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Tags: mayotte, school, rubbish, clandestine, immigration, martin luther king, kids, violence, room, rape, classroom, litter, attack, discrimination, dream, environment, poster, racism, segregation, speech

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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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26 mai 2014

Adults in Mayotte don't really like the camera lens. There is a belief that being photographed removes a part of your soul, but it's usually closer to not liking white tourists taking photos of "locals" doing "local things". Which is fair enough and perfectly...

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Tags: clothes, photo, camera, children, kofia, kids, muslim, local, boubou, coran

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14 avril 2014

Majicavo

The village I live in is called Majicavo. Literally, it means "where there is no water". Like all Mahorese villages, it's a very poor place, but near enough to the capital (Mamoudzou) for people to want to be modern and Westernized. Also like all Mahorese...

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Tags: mayotte, house, emily, shop, town, village, camera, kids, concrete, corrugated, iron, mosque, shack, douka, majicavo

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10 mars 2014

The rain in Mamoudzou falls down, soaks the road and makes big potholes.

We're slowly getting towards the end of the rainy season. It's been raining pretty much every day, but not all day though, just an hour or two at a time. The rain has - as usual - dug gaping holes in the roads, it's a right mess. Some of the roads I take...

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Tags: mamoudzou, water, school, rain, sleep, rainy season, kids, language, chiconi, couch, excuse note, late note, umbrella, water water everywhere

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27 janvier 2014

Cyclone Alert

Last week, we had a cyclone exercise at school. Much more interesting than your average fire drill, where everyone just lines up under the big tree in the playground, and not as awkward as the earthquake simulation, where they all have to fit under the...

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Tags: mayotte, school, teacher, quiet, lessons, test, kids, activity, alert, cyclone, exercise, instructions, vice-rectorate

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24 juin 2013

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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14 février 2013

Hot Blushes

I started drama lessons with the kids this afternoon. The first task was an improvisation sketch in small groups: you have just received an anonymous Valentine's card. How do you react? One girl beckoned me over and said: "Miss, I can't do this." "Why...

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Tags: black, school, white, students, valentine, kids, blush, drama, improvisation, theatre, red

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8 octobre 2012

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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