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25 février 2013

Pretty Yellow Flowers

Yesterday, I went with the association I play music for to a farming establishment which I'd heard about before, because one of the owners has a stall at the big monthly market where she sells fruit, vegetables, juice, jam, ylang-ylang essential oil and...

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Tags: mayotte, banana, papaya, bretons, mahorais, tree, ylang, flowers, distillery, cultivate, essential oil, farm, height, peas, pick, smell

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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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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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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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5 novembre 2012

Dziani Dzaha II

You may remember a map similar to this one. There's a pretty lake on the small island, and we took our friends round it to show them what it was like. A fairly long walk to get to the top, but definitely worth it once we got there. We started off from...

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Tags: mayotte, beach, dziani, lake, petite terre, view, dzaha

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29 octobre 2012

Glass-bottomed boats make the world go round

There are several companies which offer boat trips in and around the lagoon, generally to see whales and dolphins. We'd heard of one which had a boat with a glass bottom, so we put our names down and took our friends out in that for the day. We went over...

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Tags: island, mayotte, water, whale, white, coral, reef, beach, boat, sand, aquarium, dolphin, glass

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