Tarajava Guest House Antananarivo

... Mowgli] - Aïe ! [Baloo] Mais c'est tout un drame Si c'est un cactus Si vous chipez des fruits sans épines Ce n'est pas la peine de faire attention Mais si le fruit de vos rapines Est tout plein d'épines C'est beaucoup moins bon ! - Alors petit, as-tu compris ? Il en faut vraiment peu, Très peu, pour être heureux ! [Mowgli] - Pour être heureux ? Pour être heureux ! (Séance de grattage) (Bain) [Baloo] Et tu verras qu' tout est résolu ...

... around me people are haggling over baguettes and tucking into ripe mangos. Before long i head back to the hotel to scoff my own breakfast. After the obligitary brekkie of baguette, jam and juice (France definitely left its mark on the breakfasts over here) and a bit of a faff around I jump in a taxi to go up to the Rova. The Rova is the old royal palace and lies on the top of the highest hill about 4km above the city ...

Happy Valentine's Day! We had a Valentine's Day themed English Club yesterday and one of the high school students wrote this dialogue. The students have been experimenting with slang and expressions, but don't always get it right... John and Anna Love Each Other! John: (exclaimed happiness) Wow! My beautiful flower is coming (right away in long distance). Anna! Anna! Jenny ...

... which cannot go off, not living creatures. They are bound together with their legs or the feed are broken. If someone buys it, the head is chopped off. People sell chicken feed and eyes in a fluid. We learn later it is cows eyes, marinated in oil, eaten raw. Steak-frites is a popular dish in the little street restaurants for less than 1 Euro. We are not tempted. Markets everywhere. With tiny walking streets. A creepy monument with an aids sign, no ...

... via poorly drawn stick figures and animated physical gestures. An aid organization is doing the damage assessment caused by the cyclones and flooding, I'll write more on that soon. I have done my own assessment on personal belongings,however, and realize that I lost my calender with birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates such as vacation schedules so I can plan all of your trips here. If you have a ...

... a Peace Corps volunteer, you're sent to help towns in need...but there's a lot of things here that never seem to make sense and reasons behind them all, even if it's not always clear. I'll try to keep this updated with information, and things that the town may need that can be sent from the states once everything is assessed. Luckily, I went into a store today and they had bottles of water...and lots of beer that they were selling out of.

... in pursuit. It appeared to the uninformed onlooker (me) that the process was finally completed successfully, at least to the males' satisfaction.... The animals most people come to see however are the lemurs, considered to be primates, and made famous by numerous documentaries. There are several varieties ranging in size from that of a mouse to that of a large cat. Some are nocturnal, and a nocturnal viewing house had been built. Once ones' eyes adjust to the near-dark ...

... 100 at the most :) Thank goodness for all those summers teaching T-ball in the sweltering Illinois heat! I should be used to it! I will try to send more pics though my brother Jason who kindly is keeping up the website/blog for me.....but paying for the time for them to download is a bit much....but be patient because there are some good ones of my house and school! I will see what I can do!!!! Thank you all for the great birthday wishes, packages, cards, letters, you ...

... I was ready to make them kneel in the sun. That's really a punishment here. I wasn't actually to that point yet, but there is a different vibe to that class, and not in a warm, fuzzy kind of way. I feel like it's karma for all the times I've been a bratty student, which was pretty much every day in Peace Corps training. But I had to make jokes to get through the never ending sessions on how to be culturally sensitive. Which I think is important ...

... been back in our training village. Sadly, the sister of our environmental administrative assistant died unexpectantly yesterday and we had a change of plans today. All the training staff & trainees went to his town and visited the family. Tons of people were coming from all over since he is a well known figure in the community. We all went into their house, in a dark, candle lit room where the body was and they prayed and sang songs, we collected a money donation ...