Hotel Carlton Antananarivo

... que mon passeport est bientôt plein. Il me faut penser au 5eme passeport.<br><br>Le consulat de france a Tana est le plus infect que j ai vu (generalment ils sont si gentils), je me fait jeter par le gendarme, et il me dit de retourner en France car il ne s occupe que des résidents français et qu il y en a 20 000 a Madagascar et qu il reçoive 60 000 personnes chaque année au consulat donc ils ont autres choses a faire que de s occuper des touristes..<br>

Hi friends and family! Now that I'm living and working in the capitol, I should be much better at updating these blogs! Anyway, time gets away from me and a hectic work schedule keeps me busy. So, I'm trying to get some pictures from Christmas vacation uploaded here. I was lucky enough to escape the busy city and head south to visit Isalo National Park (home of the ring-tailed ...

... com/index.ht ml at the airport. Luckily Benjamin checked the flight arrival time before heading out to the airport (I'm sure he's used to dealing with Air Mad). Benjamin introduced us to our driver for the next 10 days "Babba" who took us to our hotel in the city. There was some kind of Christmas street fair going on outside out hotel and we were surprised that even at 2:00am the child ...

Nach Besuch einer Croc Farm treffe ich meinen australischen Freund Dennis am Flughafen von Antananarivo; am naechsten Tag gehts mit einem Taxi Brousse ( meist voellig ueberladenes Buschtaxi) ueber Moramanga nach Andasibe. Dort campen wir im Mitsinjo Nationalpark und unternehmen eine Nachtwanderung mit madag. Fuehrer, der uns einige Chamaeleons, den Wooly Lemur, Froesche und einen Blattschwanzgecko zeigt. Am naechsten Morgen erkunden ...

Hello Again Everybody, Very excited to say that I was able to upload several pictures of both Mark's visit and the M-Car Girls Camp 2007! Please take a minute to take a look, many good pictures! Also, just an official "Thank You!!!" again to everyone who took part in the innagural "Driving Toward a Difference!" Golf Outing way back in August. We had an ...

... Only they do not have any internet. Playing cards on our terrace in the evening is pleasant. Although, I loose, Broere. The last day of diving ends badly for me. I twist my knee 'climbing' on the boat. Badly. Dr T snorkels with a whale shark, I am too late because of the knee. I need his support to walk back to the hotel. The next day it is not better and I spend it in bed with my knee up. Tomorrow back to Anta. Thank God. As you can see, Nosy Be, Not for me!

... you said 'no thank you' to someone trying to sell you something, for the most part they said 'ok' and left you alone. We ended up at Independence Avenue, the main street of Tana, and had a wander around the maze that is Anakely market. We tried to head to Lac Anosy next, but somehow ended up on the wrong side of the next hill ...

I'm not good at keeping in touch, or on-line journaling apparently. I try to avoid using the french keyboards as much as possible. Right now I am stuck in Tana, the capital. I was supposed to come for the weekend, to get the last in a series of vaccines. I flew in Friday with a return ticket home for Sunday. I'm never that excited to leave site, but it's nice to get away for a few days and there's a break this week at school. It's for School ...

... While I was observing all this, Patrick, Maminiaina and I kept up a steady discussion, asking questions, making comparisons and contrasts and so on about our two church associations. Once at the office I set up my laptop and we went through two PowerPoint presentations about the work of UCG, including French-speaking areas of course, and about the structure of our administration since that is an area they wish to understand. I also gave them copies of ...

... moving to Tsiro. Glad to have made decision, but I'm sad to be leaving here. Especially since we went out of the village to meet parents for Anna-leigh's uni essay on primary education in Mada (me on back of host's motorbike (no helmet, eek), and Anna-leigh and Njara on push-bikes - apparently my health still isn't strong enough!) They parents were all really nice and helpful. We spoke to one parent in his rice field, and he explained ...