2011/02/10 kegger
It was my sitemate’s birthday last Saturday, so we decided to throw down Malagasy style, and mostly because we couldn’t figure out anything better to do. A normal Gasy fety has a few things every time – rice and dancing. So we bought some sodas, a case of beer, a liter of rum, and a small bottle of our local rum named 303 for our postal code. (Think like Justin Timberlake and his 901 vodka). These Gasy folks are hardcore and a mixed drink for them is rum and beer.
We invited the building to the party and one random cousin of a girl we invited asked if we had a radio to play and we don’t. He showed up a few hours before the party with some big speakers and a cd player. We made rice our way, and did Spanish rice and beans. It did not go over well. I’m pretty sure if they people who came were not polite/not happy to get free rice, they would have thrown it up. However, my rice and beans are good, if you are not Malagasy. In addition to the rice and beans, we made sliders for the adults and put in a big order from samosas from our favorite sketchy ass bar. The burgers went over better but no one understood the plate of lettuce, onions and tomatoes and what to do with it. We fed a bunch of people and everyone we invited got schwasted (we didn’t just so you know, we had to make sure the house made it out alive) and I danced. Yeah, and they think I am a good Gasy dancer, clearly this country has low standards. Pictures are online of this fiasco. Oh! Yeah the only reason why our party ended when it did is because the neighborhood mayor shut us down.
Also this week is the Journee des Ecoles, or School Days. So I am slowly figuring out what they do for this but today all the students in the city for every school paraded around town. I was supposed to take place in this, but, I was told to be at one place at 8 but apparently I was supposed to be somewhere entirely different at 7. Luckily where I ended up I got to watch the students walk by. Pictures of this are up online too. Thursday and Friday the students and staff will plant trees, clean up the classrooms and schoolyard, and paint and repair everything. But again the main problem is that I cannot figure out which school building and when anything is happening. And it is not due to a lack of Malagasy skills.
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