Malagasy People are basically from East Tennessee

2010/09/21 Malagasy People are basically from East Tennessee

For the following reasons: they sell and drink moonshine (but here it is called toaka gasy), listen to Shania Twain, farm, have their own country music complete with horses and cowboy hats, and dislike the French.
On the way to class the other day someone’s house was blasting Shania Twain’s Any Man of Mine. We stopped for a second just to make sure that was really happening. And my language teacher is a HUGE fan of Alison Krauss, Shania, Dolly and so on. My family is really into Chris Brown, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Beyonce, any R&B from the 90s (ie Boyz II Men) and Michael Jackson. This town just recently found out that he died and it was tough, some volunteers destroyed their family’s mental well being. The volunteer who lived here before me stopped by last week and she gave them a flashdrive that they can plug into their DVD player (my family is randomly tech advanced but don’t get any ideas, I still live in Madagascar) and it has 311′s Amber so they play that alot and think it is hysterical. I had hope for my family at one point because I heard the intro to an Eric Clapton song playing and it blew my mind away, BUT it ended up being a Babyface cover of Eric Clapton (see the previous note about 1990s R&B performers…). The other day in language study hall, Savannah and I (Betslieo dialect) played Led Zeppelin for our teacher Anselme and I hope we changed his life. Another volunteer played Bon Iver for his family and they apparently were really into it, so there is hope here in Mantasoa.
Also, Hillary and I made Mexican food for our families!!! I have NO idea if they really liked it or not but it was so good. We made (all from scratch and from the market-suck it whole foods) refried beans, rice, tortillas and salsa. The refried beans were easy to make although our families were really scared that we were destroying/mashing perfectly good beans. They really liked how much onion and garlic we put in them, they like the flavor here. Tortillas are really easy to make with some flour, water, oil and salt and a jar to roll them out with, I really don’t understand why I buy them ever in America now. My mom was impressed that I made bread. The salsa was essentially pico. MMMM. We just didn’t have any hot sauce or margaritas.