Hello Everybody ! Do you remember MAYOTTE? 

Our tiny island in the Indian Ocean, in the Canal of Mozambique, between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa.

Last year, MRS GABRIEL, our English teacher started to work on the Sandwatch Project and this year we have decided to join you. We are a group of 12 girls, we are between 14 and 16 and our names are Maissara, Moitsoumou,Zouriane,Anfiati,Hadjira,Rassinia, Zaianti,Koudoussia,Anillah,Souraiya,Toymina,Echati.

Today was the first time we were meeting and we were shown what was done last year. We visited the site on Sandwatch, read the articles and saw the photos. It seems so interesting and exciting at the same time ! We are sure we are going to have a great time !We have been studying English for three years and we like it very much even if we sometimes find the pronunciation and the understanding quite difficult !We are very pleased to communicate with other people and to know more about other islands in the world.We feel very concerned with ENVIRONMENT,POLLUTION,NATURE and we are aware of the importance of our beaches, lagoon and marine ecosystem. We would like to involve other schoools and classes in the project too.
We would like you to discover Mayotte as well and particularly the beach of KOUNGOU. We went on our first field trip and we were quite disappointed and discouraged by what we saw today. There’s a lot to be done to .EDUCATE people not to POLLUTE the beaches and leave their trash behind them ,but we really feel like doing something and we’ll try to so during the following year.
We hope you’ll like our photos of Mayotte and we are looking forward to hearing from you ! We are now part of the SANDWATCH COMMUNITY and we are very PROUD!

Thursday, November,16th 2006
Class 301 and their Teacher MRS GABRIEL