I went to harvest the SRI rice. Beating the rice off the stalks put my body out of commision for most of a week.
Madagascar National Parks had a party for World Environment Day which was very well attended, but a slightly stressful day for me so I didn't manage to get too many photos.
The Environment Day parade of women's groups, soccer teams, students.
Madagascar's Independence Day, commonly known as "vingt-six" was on June 26. It wasn't quite as "miresaka" (noisy) as last year, for a number a of factors. The vanilla market hasn't started yet so people have less money and we had just had the MNP environment fety. I enjoyed myself. There were a variety of "soma"s (song and dance numbers), including performances by kids along with the women's groups, and I spent the rest of the day being stuffed with food from every one of my friends in the village, so for me it was more "miresaka" than last year.
A brother duo dancing their "soma."
One women's groups learned drills with wooden guns.
Some girls doing their "soma," complete with homemade grass skirts.
Family dinner (lunch really) on "vingt-six."
I thought it was funny that this girl's Independence Day shirt was actually an American Independence Day shirt.
I also accidentally managed to teach someone that "Jewish" meant "religious" (why the hell was I teaching the word Jewish to a bunch of people who have never seen a Jewish person, I will never know) and almost fell into my latrine. I wish I was joking.
