My Trip to Madagascar

Dear Journal,     

Today i finished my student exchange program in Madagascar. I will be flying home tonight. The main thing i noticed while in Madagascar was that they use a lot less oil and a lot less electricity (ifitweremyhome.com). Almost every meal we ate had rice in it. Sometimes though, they would substitute in potatoes which was always very good. The main religion of Madagascar is Catholicism but less then half of the population is Catholic. The second main religion is Islam  but thats only 15% of the country. One of the coolest things i remember about Madagascar is that it is the world's fourth largest Island. There are two main season, a hot and rainy one, and a cool and dry one. Luckily while i was an exchange student there it was the cool and dry season. Un-fourtoneitly Madagascar is a very poor country, where two thirds of its population live below the poverty line. The health care isn't as good and there are only 29 physicians on the whole island (wikipedia.org). If you were to live in Madagascar for the rest of your life you would most likely die 15 years earlier. But the fertility rate is slightly higher than that of the United States (ifitweremyhome.org). Being a foreign exchange student there was fun but i am glad i do not live in Madagascar. Here are some picture of the different houses where i lived at and some of my new friends.