Hotel Le Logis Antananarivo

"Il en faut peu pour être heureux" - Le livre de la jungle OST [Baloo] Il en faut peu pour être heureux Vraiment très peu pour être heureux Il faut se satisfaire du nécessaire Un peu d'eau fraîche et de verdure Que nous prodigue la nature Quelques rayons de miel et de soleil. Je dors d'ordinaire sous les frondaisons Et toute la jungle est ma maison Toutes les abeilles de la forêt Butinent pour moi dans les bosquets Et quand je retourne ...

... To move between streets you are often climbing hundreds of steps and at over 30 degrees C and altitude that is no easy stroll. Never again will i ***** about the Waverley steps back home ;c) It seems that pretty much all of Tana is a market and navigating the thin pavements around the impromptu stalls selling everything from mobile phones to bat guano (yes really...) is a bit of a challenge. Everywhere i go I am greeted with ...

... look around to see a great band playing traditional music as patrons generally sit but a few dance and sway to the tunes. The game is about to start and I order something off the menu that is MALAGASY. I think I order a fish appetizer and a beef main course, but subsequently realized that I got a chicken appetizer and a fish(y) meal. I didn't eat too much, but that wasn't a problem because by the time I got my food there were at least ...

... for less than a Euro. Three Germans already had a couple of more beers. At another table, 4 local girls, share a bottle of water. One of them gives a little note to the waiter, who gives it to the Germans. They put their heads together and whisper. They look and the girls, at the paper and at each other. Finally one of the girls gets up and goes talking to them. More little notes are exchanged. Did they agree on a time, place and amount? We go and ...

... 15 minutes they would come back and take us to the forest trees where they were. It was just enough time to give a kid 5 cents and suit him up. If it weren't for the altitutude of the branches and agility of the animal, I'd be more suspect of the legitamacy. Even though the forestry agency does like to emphasize that tour guides are well educated and trained in looking for lemurs, they can spot ones that are ...

... bringing food in today, and one of the cell towers has regained service. The main town has a lot of the infrastructure intact but people in the countryside are struggling. It's difficult to get food there, and most of the houses are gone. The relief organization has brought in extra workers and PC volunteers have offered to come help if the can. It's still too early to tell exactly what the town needs, what provisions ...

Today, the 24th was a sort of official introduction to Antananarivo. Patrick and Maminiaina came by mid morning and took me to visit some places of interest around the town as we continued to discuss church matters. We first drove to the Botanical and Zoological park of Tsimbazaza. We took about an hour to walk through the park where we saw examples of the indigenous flora: towering palm trees, palm trees that grow in water, flowing bushes etc. We also saw some fascinating ...

(Update from Amy via email) Hello friends and family!!!! I am in Tana for our IST training while we have a week break from school for All Saints Day. Things are going really well at site. I teach 6eme, 4eme, and 2nde [which i am pretty sure that includes at least one kid from every family in my town!!] but they are great kids and it is a lot of fun. I am finding that grading over 350 test is going to be quite the challange, though!!! I am hoping to start an English center ...

... One class even voluntarily stayed longer on Friday afternoon since the teacher for the class after English never showed. I told them they could go home or we could keep practicing. They decided to stay. I taught them how to play Hangman. A very important aspect of the English language. There's between 60-65 in each class, but the noise level wasn't too bad. Until I taught the class that skipped out on me at the beginning of the week, I was thinking I ...

... and you can only get to her house by hiking down a steep, long, narrow path! The scenery is breathtaking though! We also meet an organization that we will be working with when we get to our site - they are in over 100 countries working on development projects. The director is very nice & interesting and we are excited to work with the organization! We also camped on our trip and visited Andasibe National Park. We went on a night hike and saw a mouse lemurs, several ...