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Fun Facts about Moodogooscoo/Mads/Madagasikara/Gaskahhhhhh

-the language here has no word for "to be"
-3/4 of Mad's govt budget comes from foregn aid
-the music video channel is hilarious
-the Malagasy dont think of themselves as African or even black
-you eat rice with a giant spoon
-sometimes people eat baguettes for breakfast
-there's .164 of a doctor per 1000 habitants
-also 1 shower/toilette per 1000 habitants
-famadihana= digging up and reburying your dead family members. Yep. Happens errday.
-80% of popn rely on food they grow in order to eat
-my host mom thinks im anorexic
-the first book translated into Malagasy was The Bible (baiboly)
-how high your house is on the hill = how high your social status is
-the malgache word for dad is dada
-tana is technically in a region that is 'cold' - im fucked for whenwe go to mahajanga
--i saw a 2 year old in a snowsuit
--winter hats are not uncommon
-im a 5 min walk from a Pandora store (wut?)
-dirt is red. Water is brown.
-my host mom has 6 brothers and 7 sisters
-in Mads, children = wealth. regardless of whether you are capable of feeding them
-fihavana= malache for 'youre a stranger but youre my brother so lets get along /social harmony, egalite, fraternite'
-all the taxis ar from the 50s not a joke



I could go on but i wont bc we are going to a dancing spectacle