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

25 mai 2015

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...

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Tags: girl, salouva, school, teacher, blue, students, miss, samoussa, same

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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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30 mars 2015

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...

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13 octobre 2014

The United Gingdom, a guided tour. From the Palace of Wismmister to Wenstre Game.

I've been working on the British monuments and flags with my kids. The test was at the end of last week, just before the holidays which have just started. The moment of truth, when I get to see what they've remembered from my naturally scintillating lesson....

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Tags: school, teacher, country, lesson, english, students, state, england, america, city, 10 downing street, badminton, buckingham palace, canada, mexico, nice, tower of london, union jack, westminster abbey

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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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8 septembre 2014

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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