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11 juillet 2015

Kwahéri Maoré

Kwahéri Maoré
When I arrived at my Mahorese school, I met several teachers who were in their last year in Mayotte. And universally, they told me that when you're in your last year, you're already at your destination in your mind. One, named Henri Denglades, was going...
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25 juin 2015

First Moon of Ramadan

First Moon of Ramadan
Seen from Mayotte, the moon looks like a smile. This is the first moon of Ramadan this year. Ramadan, or a period of roughly one month when Muslims do not eat or drink between sunrise and sunset, but gorge themselves on fried food and sugary treats at...
8 juin 2015

Protests in the Classroom

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...
25 mai 2015

Salouvas for All

Salouvas for All
Clockwise from top left: Samianti, Nisma, me, Nadhrati, Moinécha, Moinécha's boyfriend Matthias (who ended up in the photo for some reason), Hoby, Chaharazadi, Djaha, Nabaouya, Laïla and Nassifanya. And the odd unrecognizable fuzzy student. My kids have...
13 avril 2015

Versailles and Vienna

Versailles and Vienna
You might vaguely remember these posters. The music school organized a concert at the beginning of February whose theme was "the Royal Celebrations of Versailles". It was such a success - the first classical concert of the year, so 250 people came - that...
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6 avril 2015

Stop Hitting the Teachers.

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...
30 mars 2015

Dictionaries in an English lesson.

Dictionaries in an English lesson.
This is what happened when I asked some of the girls in my class to give out the dictionaries. They walked all round the classroom with a couple of dictionaries on their heads, handed the dictionaries out to the other students, went back to the cupboard...
16 février 2015

What do you want to be when you're older? Dunno, miss...

What do you want to be when you're older? Dunno, miss...
Saturday was Job Forum day at school. Some well-intentioned and better-organized-than-the-others teachers had been collecting people for a few months now, people who came from different job horizons and who had agreed to come to our school and talk about...
15 décembre 2014

The teacher is in the hammock.

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!
8 décembre 2014

Rain at School

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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