Monday 16 November 2015

Madagascar 5 Weeks in.

So far, we have been in Madagascar for 5 weeks and we are already beginning to complete everything that is important to do, this includes things like getting a visa, having a car and renting a house. We have already chosen a house that is perfect for my family of four. As soon as we arrived at the the house to take a look, we all felt a rush of welcoming and homeliness, we knew this was the one.
The garden is probably 3 or 4 times the size of the house and has many places to explore and play fun games in the sun. There are little rooms outside where we hope to give people who need a home, somewhere to live. Nothing can be more perfect than this house that sits right by the calming lake where most of the prettiest birds chirp and sing in the high tree tops.








The car that we are interested in is a black 4 x 4 (we need a 4 x 4 because it copes with the tough roads with many holes and ditches in that we use to travel through Antananarivo) with 5 seat belts (seat belts are rare in this country... not to scare you) and is sparkling clean. The only problems are that it has a Belgian number plate which we would have to get fixed and when we checked inside the bonnet it looked slightly dodgy. We are going to phone an engineer to check if everything is alright and if it is somehow we are going to transfer the money to buy the car.

Already I have a lot of cool friends that are fun to play with if I ever get bored. It is always sunny and warm to play outside and it only rains sometimes at night or at the end of the day. When is does rain all you can hear is the rain pattering fiercely on the roof and the lightning zapping outside. 

We also have (kind of) adopted a little dog named Snowy. We estimate that she is around 2 or 3 years old because she hasn't grown out of her playful ways yet. As you can probably tell by her name her fur is white like snow... after we gave her a bath. Yesterday we plopped her into the bath and gave her a good old scrub, she came out sparkling white and scampered outside in the sun to dry off.
Madagascar is full of adventures which are fun to explore and I'm sure many more await me.
See you in the next post!
Bethany C:
  

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