Every country, or just about, has a national holiday. For the overwhelming majority of the world’s nations, that holiday in centered on...

Those of us who are more analytically minded often like to look at statistics, graphs, and all other tools that help us visualize data....

The other day I shared with you some of the more technical parts of having my students write stories. As fun and interesting as I found...

Way back in April and May, I had my terminal (senior) students write short stories that I would later correct and return with feedback in...

For now, this will be the last of my blogs on lessons unless I have another lesson I find worth sharing with you. I combined these two...

The most difficult part of learning any language, truly, is figuring out not only what it sounds like, but also how to repeat those...

Clothing is a very common topic that we speak about in our mother tongue’s but rarely think about teaching other than glossing over some...

Cooking is one of those topic areas we often forget about. There is a lot of unique vocabulary that deals with the kitchen, so teaching...

At some point in my teaching experience here, it dawned on me that although the new English curriculum has a lot of topics for their...

Last week I went off a little bit about the differences in the education systems of the United States and Madagascar. I’ve been thinking...

As you may have guessed, there are a lot of differences between Malagasy and American classrooms. We often get asked by our Malagasy...

There are 18 historic tribes that stretch across the island of Madagascar. In the old days, these tribes constituted a multitude of small...

I like studying languages. That’s pretty obvious for anyone who knows me. But my curiosity with languages extends much deeper than a...

Our hotel resort in Morondava was right on the beach. From our deck to the water in the morning was less than 50 yards. But by the time...

Madagascar is a big island, a really big island. There is a reason why it is sometimes called the “Eighth Continent”. That is because...

My fellow Fulbrighters and I went on a 9-day long journey to a few new places in Madagascar for our Easter break. Madagascar is a big...

In an old Looney Toons episode written by Charles (Chuck) Jones and starting Bugs Bunny (the one that introduces the silly red monster...

While you are reading this, I will be in either Ranomafana or Morondava where my fellow Fulbrighters and I have decided to vacation over...

There’s a wonderful Claymation movie called The Miracle Worker which follows the life of Jesus. During the Palm Sunday scene when Jesus...

In a previous blog about taxis in Tana, I foreshadowed that there are other means of transporting oneself around Madagascar and, more...