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Mahajanga. Maahhhhajanga. Haven't been able to write much bc im stressed. 'stressed' being relative - i spent all day sunday on the beach and right now im sitting under a fan drinking a frappacino. BUT! There is actually lots of school-related things to be doing. And it is harder to do them when i am sweating out my eyeballs. 

Highlights:

-My fam here is insane. There is a mom a dad and approximately 800 children/newphews/nieces/kids of friends/ random ppl who swing by on the weekend/unknowns. Dinner is minimum 8 people. I love them they find me hilarious.

-My dad likes to not wear a shirt on talk nonsense in a booming voice.

-My mom likes to sit outside under the mango tree, yell at her kids to cook more rice, and refer to me as vazaha "efa voki vazaha?" already full vazaha? Vazaha knows lots of words. Vazaha will kill the chicken.

-Oh yeah i killed a chicken. With a knife. My 13 year old brother/newphew taught me. He told me I gave it a slow death, thats why it was twitching so much. Noted.

-My family likes to make me dance and then tell me im a good dancer while simultaneously dying of laughter. Confusing. 

-Doesn't help that my 800 siblings/cousins are all accomplished ballroom dancers. I went to class with them (they go 3x a week) and ended up getting almost molested in a corner by a rando during the Meringue. Afterwards the instructor aggressively held my shoulders and yelled french numbers in my ear bc my foxtrot was 'ratsy be' i.e. terrible. 

-I was on the 7 o clock news (not just me, all the vazahas of SIT) bc we visited the local tv station and because we are news. I had an interview where i talked gasy too fast and confused the word 'sad' with a random music group ive been learning about. example: "i am Rolling Stones to be leaving mahajanga in a week!"

-Consequently, i learned the gasy word for 'famous'

-I cooked fajitas for my fam with guacamole. My 10 yr old brother said it was the only vazaha food he has liked. Win. mahay mahandro ny vazaha - vazaha knows how to cook. But does not know how to foxtrot.