tit.ravinala
Malagasy citizen
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About me
Malagasy
Lives in Diego-Suarez / Antsiranana
Speaks Malagasy - Fran莽ais - Anglais - Allemand
Registration: 09 May 2016
About
Occupation
I am Employed.
My expat journey
Diego-Suarez / Antsiranana, Madagascar
Professional career. My first relocation outside the capital: initiatory experience.
I worked as a communications officer for a French NGO working for education. At the same time, I was the local correspondent journalist for a national daily.
Antsiranana or Diego-Suarez left an indelible mark on me... It's a magical place, with its good and bad sides, of course. But it is a city and a region that remains dear to my heart: I only dream of one thing, being able to return there, and if possible for the long term. What I appreciated there at the time: the ambient feeling of 'dolce vita', the architectural framework marked by colonization, breathtaking nature, landscapes and biodiversity, a 'apart' population, cosmopolitan and rather proud... A dialect whose sounds enchant me!
The 'minuses': the difficulty of finding accommodation - the high cost of living - a certain distrust, a spirit of competition between communities - the apology for material well-being which is accompanied by a certain decay of individual, family and societal values...
Antananarivo, Analamanga, Madagascar
Secondary schooling - Professional career.
I discovered my country after a childhood in the mainland.
Arriving in the midst of the Admiral's 'socialist revolution', the contrast with metropolitan life was immediately obvious! But I was undoubtedly a young rice plant just ripe for transplantation, transplanting... This period of adaptation - with its share of aberrations and unexpected discoveries - was sufficiently 'fade in and out' for the love of this country and its people to grow in me, which I now discover every day, through the viewfinder of my dual culturality.
D茅partement de la Gironde, Aquitaine, France
Childhood