Although
this is the second time that I have been in Madagascar for their independence,
this is the first year that I have been able to devote the majority of my
schedule to the celebrations; the first Independence Day being spent during my
initial training here in country. This
ability to observe and partake in the majority of their celebrations was an
amazing, eye opening, and, at times, exhausting experience. Madagascar
received its independence from France
on June 26, 1960, and
Independence Day every year is celebrated, in many respects, like we celebrate
Independence Day in America,
with parades, speeches, and fireworks.
What makes it so much more different than in the States is that the
One Year In
Today marks
one year of me being in Madagascar. It is strange to think how just one year ago
my stagemates and I were stepping off a plane onto a small runway at the
airport in Tana and were walking towards the training that would prepare us for
the lives we would soon lead. Seeing
today, on Facebook, the picture of the newly arrived stage of Education
volunteers outside the airport, it reminded me of the way we looked and thought
when we first arrived. All of us clean
and primp, wide eyed, and childish looking compared to now. Some of us had never been out of the country,
or their state even; some never having been to a developing country; some never
having taught before;
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