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14 janvier 2013

Food Shopping

P went back to France at the beginning of December. At one point, he had to go to the local supermarket to forage for food. He went round the supermarket with his mouth hanging open, so many products were there. So many products, and so many varieties...

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Tags: mayotte, food, expensive, shop, tesco, christmas, money, camembert, cheese, england

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7 janvier 2013

Out of Place

Mayotte is a strange place to live in. On one hand, the country is a French department and has belonged to France for over a hundred years. You can find La Poste and the Conseil Général, every village has a Mairie (town hall) and often a boulangerie (baker's)....

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Tags: mayotte, car, shop, television, amazon, bakery, customer, land, mainland, post office, product, salespeople, technology

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31 décembre 2012

Scenes in Mayotte

Two Mahorese ladies, decorator and decoratee during a Tourism Committee festival. They draw geometrical figures and flowery shapes on their faces for all sorts of ceremonies, from weddings to end-of-year school parties, generally with a white paste. Sometimes,...

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Tags: mayotte, box, fruit, vegetable, zebu, fish, boat, market, ylang, water buffalo, face paint, distillery, fishing, letter

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24 décembre 2012

Rich gentlemen have it, boys!

On the last day of school, my class - MY class, the one I'm the main teacher of, the one I theoretically have the power of life and death over (or at least a say in what happens to them next year) - seemed rather excited. So did everybody. The holidays...

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Tags: food, class, holiday, school, death, cake, children, biscuit, hungry, last day, life, poor, present, sweet

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17 décembre 2012

Please do not spit in the hospital. Thank you.

We went on a boat trip the other day with our friend Franck and a friend of his, a doctor named Brigitte. We now know that... The most wide-spread illnesses in Mayotte are high blood pressure and diabetes. However, the women may be fat, they never suffer...

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Tags: dzaoudzi, mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, women, children, men, age, blood, diabetes, doctor, fat, hospital, ill, jacaranda, patient, pressure, sick, spit

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10 décembre 2012

Mont Combani

The day P left, we had a concert planned in the evening at the Gîte du Mont Combani. We were all rather shattered, as we'd all had fairly long days, but we got together in the late afternoon and went up to the gîte together. It's quite a trek, even in...

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Tags: blue, accordion, music, recorder, mango, mont, combani, dance, play, violin, gite, group

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3 décembre 2012

Saying Goodbye to Philippe

Before P left, we had a party with the music group and the dancers to say goodbye. Every two weeks, the main dancer holds a dance workshop at his home, where anyone who so wishes can turn up and learn a few traditional dancers. Usually, a couple of musicians...

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Tags: mayotte, food, accordion, music, recorder, philip, dance, violin, percussion, bamboo, mahorese, seed, wine

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26 novembre 2012

Things pupils say.

I love it when... I love it when my pupils can't quite speak properly, but they try anyway. Faced with a picture of a baby learning to walk, they say: "She is learning to go". Brilliant. Sometimes, this turns into rather long-winded explanations because...

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Tags: mayotte, pupils, school, lesson, harass, harassment, learn, sexual, word

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19 novembre 2012

High heels and red carpets

On Saturday, we went to the annual Fashion Salon in M'Gombani. Except that this year, we didn't just go round the stalls outside which were selling colourful African printed material and bamboo sticks: we stayed for the fashion show itself. It started...

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Tags: indian ocean, mayotte, clothes, mgombani, mode, salon, chiromani, designers, fashion, heels, lace, model, satin, show, silk

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12 novembre 2012

Dancing on Tanaraki

The friends we had over during the holidays were a girl my age and her mother, both of whom we'd met while doing a musical exchange between our Poitiers folk group and theirs, near the Puy du Fou in the Vendée region. So to keep them busy, we decided...

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Tags: beach, accordion, music, recorder, friend, dance, violin, percussion, tanaraki

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