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7 octobre 2013

Those who can, cook. Those who can't, eat.

I've been teaching my students about food recently, as you saw in the recent blog post about the European classes. They love learning the English words for their local fruit and vegetables: cassava, breadfruit, chicken wings... they're shouting over each...

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Tags: mayotte, banana, breadfruit, food, tomato, class, school, lesson, pasta, vanilla, yoghurt, hungry, cinnamon, courgette, healthy food, junk food, local, muffin, sausage, shepherd's pie

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30 septembre 2013

Parent-Teacher Meeting

It was National Parent-Teacher Meeting Day on Saturday. You can thank the Vice-Rectorate for that. What a mess. It started off innocently enough. Instead of each school organizing its own PT meeting, the high education authority in Mayotte decided to...

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Tags: mayotte, pupils, school, teacher, children, group, individual, explain, homework, meeting, middle, mother, parent, primary, secondary

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2 septembre 2013

Here we go again.

School's back. Again. The yearly rush of pupils who have been hanging around the school doors for a good week now, staying outside all day and convincing their parents that classes had already started up, thereby getting out of working in the fields and...

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Tags: mayotte, stuff, colleague, kawéni, pupils, school, teacher, back to school, book, pen, rentrée, room, staff

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29 juillet 2013

Cascade

The Soulou Waterfall, on the west coast of Mayotte, is a place which is renowned for its thefts, break-ins and various attacks of all kinds. Unfortunately, it's also recognized as one of the most beautiful sites on the island. That's why, when a friend...

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Tags: mayotte, colleague, water, beach, friend, walk, group, soulou, cascade, waterfall

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22 juillet 2013

The Blue Mango Strikes Again

On Friday, the musicians had a party at one musician's house including all musicians and dancers. I think everyone had a good time, there was certainly a lot of dancing going on. On Saturday, we planted ourselves in the middle of the monthly farmer's...

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Tags: mayotte, beach, blue, accordion, flute, guitar, music, recorder, mango, violin, sakouli, rehearsal

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15 juillet 2013

Tsumu n'djema wa aïd m'baraka

Ramadan started last Wednesday. People started rushing into various markets and supermarkets to buy the necessary food for the feast before the fast. In Mayotte, celebratory foods include mabawas (chicken wings), green bananas, cassava, breadfruit, goat...

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Tags: mayotte, salouva, sea, culture, ramadan, allah, evil eye, faith, highway code, mubarak, muslim, purification, rite, ritual, spirit

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8 juillet 2013

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Rules for the Tyre Race. Wear the official Tyre Race t-shirt while racing. Collect one number sign per team the week before the race. This number sign will be necessary to collect the remaining number signs for each team. Without the first number sign,...

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Tags: mayotte, tyres, bretons, friend, race, run, tyre racing, soap, 30, cavani, edition, practise, stadium, stick

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1 juillet 2013

Practising for the Grand Tyre Race

About two weeks ago, the lady in charge of the Bretons of Mayotte Association sent a collective e-mail out, asking for people to become "ambassadors" for the tyre race which was to take place on the 29th of June. I responded, asking what would be involved,...

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Tags: mayotte, tyres, bretons, friend, race, run, tyre racing, soap, 30, cavani, edition, practise, stadium, stick

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24 juin 2013

Dramatic

For the last six months, three colleagues and I have been doing a drama workshop with the kids at school. I filed it as a "school project" at the end of last year, so the Vice-Rectorate (high education authority) gave the school a grant of seven hundred...

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Tags: mayotte, pupils, school, beach, english, market, french, kids, culture, drama, history, polygamy, props, stage, violence

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17 juin 2013

Starry Skies

On the 1st of June, the Mayotte Astronomy club organised its annual Sun and Star Party. They invited the local schools to make and show models and exhibitions about space, they hung up big colourful balls, they had posters up about light pollution or...

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Tags: mayotte, sun, hemisphere, southern, star, australis, borealis, centaur, chart, constellation, corona, crux, mtsangabeach, night, saturn, scorpius

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