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more village life in ankily |
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With the guys. These are three of my best friends in my village (from left to right): Patricke, Maro, and Jana. Here, we are sitting around at my house. |
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Drinking coffee with "dadabe" ("grandfather"). Every morning I go over to my neighbors' house and have coffee with this guy. He is 90 years old, but the coolest guy to hang out with. |
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I love this woman. I call her "neny," which means "mother" in Malagasy. From the first day I arrived in Ankily, she insisted that I call her that. Pictured with her is one very drunk Teza, my friend and Claudine's husband. |
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Claudine and her children. These are more family of dadabe, the guy who lives behind my house. |
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Sometimes I through a party and have all my guy friends over...we play dominoes, listen to my music, and "mirevy" ("have a good time"). The guy who is leaning over is Liva, the president of the local health association and the town drunk. |
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Maro and me. He lives just nxt door, and until recently when he started teaching French in Ihosy, he worked every day in his family's store. |
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Making moonshine sugarcane rum, or "toaka gasy," with Mimi and Freddy. Mimi is a friend of mine, and the supplier of toaka for my village. Usually I don't touch the stuff, but his rum is not too bad. |
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Patricke and Syl, his girlfriend. They are really good together.... |
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Lemy, Manitra, and myself. These guys, who are married, are two of my best friends in Ihosy, the big town just down the road from Ankily. They are just great people. I hang out with them at least one afternoon a week in their home, telling stories, eating together, learning English together. |
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Me and Tahina dancing. Tahina, pictured to my left, is a friend and one of my soccer teammates. He invited the whole town to a celebration at his home because his older brother found a saffire at a nearby mining town, making the family a whole lot richer. |
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Eating dinner with Freddy and Elise. These are my neighbors who I eat with every evening of every day. Elise is a good cook, and it's just nice to sit around a table and "break bread" together, or "shovel rice" as the case may be. I am also a lazy cook, so it's a sweet deal in that respect as well. |
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Me and Tony. This kid is officially the cutest kid in all of Madagascar. He is the only child of Freddy and Elise. |
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