School Days

Can you spot the vazaha?

Here’s a class picture from my month-long intensive French language course. The local chapter of the Alliance Franco-Malgache puts on language courses periodically and this is the second one I’ve taken since being in Fianar. We covered a range of topics, most dealing with some aspect of French language and culture, and I was often called upon to provide the American perspective. As the photo reveals, a few nuns took the class, and frequently they provided the class with much unintended hilarity. One day, after working on personal presentations to make to the class, a nun put the class in stitches when she declared the obvious: she was single, and a practicing Catholic.