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This is from the day before I left. Emily and I hiked out to Trois Bassins and went around exploring hidden pools and waterfalls and tunnels and all manner of beautiful things. I threw this together in various airports on the way home; it reminds me of one of the best days I spent on the island.

This is from the day before I left. Emily and I hiked out to Trois Bassins and went around exploring hidden pools and waterfalls and tunnels and all manner of beautiful things. I threw this together in various airports on the way home; it reminds me of one of the best days I spent on the island.

$4 A Gallon: National Gas Price Average Reaches Record [Huffington Post] »

If it makes you feel better, it’s $9-$10/gallon here.

Bêtises de Guillaume

Bêtises de Guillaume

Tomorrow begins the ascent! (Somehow I missed the unrolling of Google Maps “terrain view” back in November…it makes the island look neat)

Tomorrow begins the ascent!

(Somehow I missed the unrolling of Google Maps “terrain view” back in November…it makes the island look neat)

On scaling Piton des Neiges

Me: that's going to be painful
Me: but the view is supposed to be otherworldly
Adam: It's probably just otherworldly because the exhaustion has you hallucinating.
Sometimes life on this island is just unreal

Sometimes life on this island is just unreal

Si l’bor d’lo

Si l’bor d’lo

“Yes, I’m finnich!”

—Even after 8 months, about 150 of my 400 students can neither hear nor reproduce the difference between /ɪʃt/ and /ɪtʃ/. Question mark?
wetherobots.com (via dkoder) A lot of my French coworkers approach 2nd grade art this way, for some reason.

wetherobots.com (via dkoder)

A lot of my French coworkers approach 2nd grade art this way, for some reason.

Google Answers: Ants in a microwave oven »

I observed this today and looked it up. Kind of neat.

Now that I think about it, swarms of ants have had a really positive influence on my life:

  • I keep a spotless kitchen, because there’s no other choice
  • They’ve forced me to research the workings of microwaves
  • Roaches, once so repulsive to me, are now almost laughable next to the sinister plague of ants
Speaking of Étang-Salé, here it is 20 minutes ago

Speaking of Étang-Salé, here it is 20 minutes ago

My days are filled with a disorienting mixture of languages. So is this Muxtape. Specifically, it’s devoted to that delightful mélange of French and English known to the Anglosphere as Frenglish. (P.S. If there is some kind of Awkward Phonetics competition, everyone just lost to “Frenglish Muxtape.”)

My days are filled with a disorienting mixture of languages. So is this Muxtape. Specifically, it’s devoted to that delightful mélange of French and English known to the Anglosphere as Frenglish.

(P.S. If there is some kind of Awkward Phonetics competition, everyone just lost to “Frenglish Muxtape.”)

Poisson d’avril

I spent much of today being told “t’as une araignée dans les cheveux!” and having fish doodles taped to my back by very small, mischievous hands.

This is as fixed-width as volcanic sand gets, I’m afraid. (You get the idea.)

This is as fixed-width as volcanic sand gets, I’m afraid.

(You get the idea.)