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IYER Monica
30 Lot. Vayaboury
Rue de la Cayenne
97410 St. Pierre
Reunion, France


In other news, this weekend was mildly insane. Friday we had a bunch of other assistants come down from St. Denis and St. Giles. We all watched the St. Pierre Divali parade - lots of drums and girls dancing garba raas and fireworks. Then we invaded Vanessa's and my favourite Thai resto, and finally went out dancing til almost 5am.

Then the next day Vanessa and JJ and i headed out on one of our famous night hikes, into Mafate, where a local music festival was happening. JJ rented a car and we had to drive across the island, from St. Pierre to St. Benoit (see map below), which was really lovely, and then parked near the pass into Mafate. We started hiking at 8pm, got to the festival at 10, and the music stopped at 2am. For the rest of the night we sat with a collection of random people around a drum circle, half making friends, half trying to avoid people who we didn't want to be friends with. When the sun rose we started back out to the car, and ended up hiking with two French guys to whom we gave a ride. The hike back was really rainy so we were all wet and freezing most of the way down, especially since we kept having to use the air conditioner to keep the car windows from fogging up.

We were exhausted, and i don't think we really recovered until today, (Wednesday) as Vanessa and i both fell asleep at 10 o'clock last night and didn't wake up til 9.

I'll try to put up more pictures soon - keep those e-mails coming, and now you can send me snail mail too!

love y'all