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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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15 avril 2013

Who let the kids out?

Last Thursday, I was called in to replace a sick colleague on a school trip. The idea was to take a class of 14-year-olds to visit the remains of a sugar-cane factory, a copra dryer and a museum about ylang-ylang flowers and vanilla. Two teachers, twenty-nine...

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Tags: mayotte, girl, class, pupils, school, boy, photo, coconut, ylang, students, oil, vanilla, distillery, copra, jimaweni, mtsangamouji, museum, soulou, sugar, trip

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21 février 2013

Things students say...

I was happily teaching my students all about various states, cities, monuments and cultures of the United States of America. Then I gave them a test... and as usual, I didn't recognize my original lesson at all. I have now learnt that... Per year, Yellowe...

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Tags: house, pupils, school, teacher, lesson, white, students, work, america, barack, obama, usa

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28 janvier 2013

Training the Future

Just before the Christmas holidays, the company I work for outside school asked me to teach English to a group of students training to become computer technicians. A group of ten to fifteen people aged anywhere between 16 and 40, whom I would be teaching...

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Tags: pupils, teacher, saturday, students, computer, group, daesa, infrared, keyboard, morning, printer, vocabulary

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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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18 octobre 2011

The Gold Rush

Things have been a little complicated recently. First, the strikes started because of the cost of living here. For example : 4.20€ for a 1kg packet of rice, 2.83€ for three large potatoes and 3.50€ for a packet of butter. "Essential" products here are...

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Tags: mayotte, food, mzungu, pupils, butter, chicken wings, cost, dustbin, gas, hunger, living, mabawas, rice, strike, supermarket

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24 août 2011

School has started.

School started today, with the teachers getting together and meeting the heads. Quite an exotic-looking school, with coconut trees and banana trees growing in the playgrounds. The rooms themselves are pretty run-down, with flaking paint, windows that...

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Tags: mamoudzou, clothes, kishali, salouva, black, canteen, class, holiday, kawéni, mzungu, pupils, school, teacher

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