Well I have moved to my new town, whose name translates as "Sleeping on a bed of money," and working full-time at my new position as "Small Enterprise Technical and Management Advisor" with the Koloharena farmers' Cooperative. You can see a brief overview of this work in the Oct. 2 post, and I will try to write-up something more detailed soon. Needless to say, it is a very different experience from my previous two villages, as I am in a big town working in an office most of the day from 8-6... Even now, at 9pm, I am up checking email from the American buyer and working on digital documents. Crazy.
Anyway, the real reason I wanted to write was to draw attention to an interesting study a friend and fellow Mada PCV (1st time around) wrote up. Brendan took a look at news coverage of Madagascar's coup (almost 2 years ago now!) Take a minute to absorb some great lines like "So far, we've seen that web users care more about movies than Malagasy murders, regardless of how much noise the news makes." and "But come on - there were more articles written in Romanian than in English about the crisis in Madagascar. Romanian! I don't even want to think what that would look like in terms of articles per fluent capita!"
Great stuff Brendan! The political impasse has continued, although a new "transition" parliament took office this week, and the campaign for the referendum on the new constitution (scheduled for Nov. 17th) has begun - There are "Yes" signs and advertisements everywhere!
That's all for now, but I'll try to put something together again soon...
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