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        <title><![CDATA[Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kwahéri Maoré]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pamandzi]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On my last day in Mayotte, I returned the flat keys in the morning, then went to see the man who was buying the car from me. When he had come to my flat to test-drive the car, he had brought a young mechanic with him, and hadn't actually driven the car... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[La Mangue Bleue]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 01:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Blue Mango now has t-shirts. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pneumatophores.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 01:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I've been fascinated by the mangrove since I arrived in Mayotte. The mangrove goes pretty much all round the island. From most points on the coast, you can either see it or smell it, or both. Mangrove trees are salt tolerant, and they have an very simple... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[First Moon of Ramadan]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Girls, tyres and ministers, oh my!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 02:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last Saturday was the tyre-race. Just to be different, I'd decided that this year, I wanted to run with a big tyre, a lorry tyre, one of those huge things that come up to about chest level. I knew the time-keeper for the tyre race, so I talked him into... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tsoundzou]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 01:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[These are some typical roadside scenes in Mayotte. The above photos were taken in the village of Tsoundzou. There's a bridge over a pretty river, where various outrigger canoes were parked. The bridge is actually fairly new. It was started about ten years... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Protests in the Classroom]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2015 02:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nanny, you probably don't want to know what I did last weekend.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 01:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I recently had a couple of acquaintances over. The sort of people who'll give you absolutely no news for a year or so, then suddenly pop up out of the blue saying that they've bought plane tickets to Mayotte and can I put them up. They'd timed their visit... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Salouvas for All]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2015 01:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mamoudzou By Night]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2015 02:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was sent on an espionage mission the other day. A friend of mine suspected his wife of cheating on him, and had asked me to go to a Senegalese party which she was planning to attend in order to check if the new boyfriend was there. When I got there,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Market Day Has Gone Forever]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 01:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There used to be two markets in Mamoudzou. The official one, and the clandestine one. The official one is under cover, in a fairly recent building where sellers rent out spaces the size of your average garage for 120€/month. Pretty expensive by Mahorese... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Carnival commemorating the Abolition of Slavery]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 01:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Slavery Abolition Day was on April 27th, and brought with it a bank holiday, a closed exhibition, a time-wasting conference and a small carnival. These photos are of the participants in said carnival. There weren't very many groups, only about six or... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Voulé à Musicale Plage]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was invited to a company voulé the other day, a barbecue on the beach with the company I work with giving English lessons to adults. The rainy season is reaching its end now, but there are still some strong bursts of rain occasionally, and I was caught... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[UNICEF Heroes Day]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2015 02:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yesterday was UNICEF Heroes Day: a worldwide, running-applications-and-various-other-gadgets-connected run whose goal was to raise money to vaccinate children. The idea was to get everybody to run 10 kilometres and connect via various running or fitness-based... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Versailles and Vienna]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 03:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stop Hitting the Teachers.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 01:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dictionaries in an English lesson.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dictée Bolé]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 03:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This weekend, I took part in a quintessentially French way of spending a fun Saturday afternoon. As part of the Language Week, a local association had organized a Grand Dictation in order to promote language awareness among schoolchildren and adults.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lille again.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[As Nanny and Papi know from a rather frantic Facetime chat some time last week, I've been in Lille for the last week and a half, looking for a flat. It wasn't supposed to go that way. Originally, H and I had planned to spend the school holidays together... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Nutrition Transition]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A rather interesting article turned up in the newspaper this week. Mayotte has been in the middle of a nutritional transition (poetically put) for quite a few years now. From not having enough to eat and suffering from various lacks and deficiencies,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Grating coconut]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 01:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In Mayotte, coconut and coconut milk are frequently used in cooking. Mataba, one of the most common dishes here, is made by mashing cassava leaves and mixing them with coconut milk, sometimes adding meat or fish later on. Fish and chicken are regularly... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[N'Gouja, probably for the last time.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 02:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It's the holidays next week, so this weekend was really the last one before the holidays on which to go to the beach. I don't go that often - not really interested in lying around in the heat, and not bothered about salty water and small fish - but H... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What do you want to be when you're older? Dunno, miss...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 02:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Still playing.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 02:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On January 24th, we had our Annual Fest-Noz. With capital letters. It's a huge and terrifyingly-organized evening centred around Breton music and dancing, it needs so much work put into it that there is only one per year (compared to several per week... ]]></description>
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