Madagascar is a beautiful country. Her people and landscape are beyond compare. I think I love this culture so much because they like to laugh as much as I do…which is a lot. They have holidays for whichever way the wind blows…which allows for long weekends off of language. This particular weekend, many people celebrated Ascension…our language teacher had some errands that needed to be done, so we got a 4 DAY WEEKEND!!! Please, do not underestimate the excitement in those 3 words. We had been longing to get out of Tana for a little R&R, and when this long weekend presented itself, we QUICKLY (and I do mean quickly…like 20 minutes after we were told) jumped on a plan to visit friends in another city. We traveled right after class on Thursday to make the 3-4 hour journey south. We stayed the night in that city and ate GREAT food…then continued straight (there is one road in Madagascar…and it only goes straight…) for 5-6 more hours to Fianarantsoa. There is a large universi