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11 décembre 2011

Christmas Market - R.I.P.

Two hours later, I went to the driving school for two hours of motorbike lessons. It had already started drizzling, so the monitor told two of us that we had better come back another day as the rain looked like holding. It's OK to learn to drive in the...

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Tags: mbiwi, water, mzungu, lesson, motorbike, rain, christmas, market

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10 décembre 2011

Christmas Market

There was a Christmas market today in front of the M’biwi Café, just down the road from us. I thought a Christmas market by 32°C sounded interesting, so I went along after work to see what sort of things were up for sale. The first thing that struck me...

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Tags: mayotte, food, papaya, clothes, mzungu, postcard, colour, basket, christmas, jewellery, juice, market, pineapple, tortoise

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5 décembre 2011

Mangrove Mud

Last week, I went on a grande randonnée, a walk signalled by white and red flashes on the trees, with the association my music group belongs to, the Bretons of Mayotte. I hadn't really had the occasion to explore the island properly, mainly because of...

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Tags: mayotte, banana, food, beach, rain, chirongui, mangrove, picnic, pilao, root

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2 décembre 2011

Playing dress-up

I went to the Mayotte M'Gombani Fashion Salon today, as you can probably see from the photos. Different creators were holding stands with their various wares: trousers and tops, colourful dresses, earrings, necklaces, oven mitts (rather the odd one out),...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, kishali, salouva, december, beauty, boueni, bouéni, henna, mahorais, mdzindzano, mgombani, mode, salon

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28 novembre 2011

What Not To Wear

Before coming to Mayotte, I’d looked them up in books and on websites, talked to people about them, looked into what was available locally. I’d looked into the materials that went into making them and how said materials would stand the test of time, humidity,...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, dress, salouva, t-shirt, shop, advertising, british telecom, december, jeans, summer, tesco

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26 novembre 2011

T.P. Folk

Yesterday, my music group and I were invited to play in a local brochetti. Brochettis are small restaurants, often in car-parks or in the middle of nowhere, all corrugated iron and plastic chairs, but they cook locally-grown/fished/caught food on a barbecue,...

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Tags: breadfruit, food, fish, music, road, barbecue, brochetti, colas, construction, mama brochetti

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21 novembre 2011

It's raining, it's pouring...

View from the flat. The rainy season started in the middle of last week. Tropical rain is quite interesting. It goes by short blasts of heavy rain followed by great lengths of nothing. But in the wet season, it rains at least a little every day. These...

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Tags: mayotte, rain, april, change, climate, holes, mum, november, puddle, road, season, wet

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19 novembre 2011

The Motorbike Saga Begins

First motorbike lesson today, called an evaluation lesson. First, the monitor sat two of us down and talked us through why we wanted to drive a motorbike, what were the pros and cons, what protective material we needed and what the exam was like. I now...

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Tags: school, lesson, motorbike, rain, driving school, gloves, helmet, jacket, leather, trousers

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16 novembre 2011

The English girl and the Motorbike

I wonder if Papi remembers teaching me to drive... 31.10.2011 The driving-school instructor who taught me how to ride a scooter had asked me for English lessons, so I gave him his first lesson this evening. In return, instead of payment, he is going to...

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Tags: english, motorbike, lessons, code, driving school, mistakes, prefecture, rousseau, saturday, theory, time

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13 novembre 2011

Feet, bikes, cats and cars.

This morning, the temperature was 29°C in the shade, 47°C in the sun. At 8.25 a.m. At the moment, even the cat is flat out on the cool floor tiles. This is the cool season. It doesn't actually bother me when I'm busy doing nothing, but does get in my...

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Tags: temperature, cat, degrees, mango, poquette, rain, sun, terrace, tiles

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