How to Break Into a Malagasy House

So you've found yourself locked out of your homestay house in Madagascar. What do you do? 

You break in. That's what. (Our host mom actually told us to do this... no worries.)

1. Find a flat-ish piece of metal lying around the house. (This shouldn't be too difficult, as you are in Madagascar...) 

2. Use the flat piece of metal to twist the screws off of the metal hinge thinger that is padlocked. (Kick yourself for leaving your Swiss Army Knives in the house.)

Comme ca.

 3. Continue to twist until you get one screw out. Hooray! You're halfway there.

4. Unfortunately, the metal has become too bendy and the second screw is reeaaallly screwed in there. 

5. Look for stronger metal.

6. Resort to climbing into the abandoned car and taking one the the car handles from it. 

 7. Oh yes!

8. Twist and twist until VIOLA! You have succeeded! 

(Most of the credit needs to go to H who was super resourceful and not me who took pictures and pretended that our search for metal was actually a Malagasy Easter Egg hunt... Good thing I got a tetanus shot before coming here.)