DAY 14, June 18, 2009 Thursday

Second, we smoke the coconut flesh until golden brown. Once it reached golden brown, it is now a copra, and we sell it to the middlemen that will also sell them to big processors of coconut oil. In Badian Cebu, this copra was sold at 18 pesos per kilo.






The process of making copra, the raw material for petroleum products such as motor oil and cooking oil I think.

First, the coconut fruit is broken in half and the flesh is taken out.

***events of the day***

== got the 10,000 pesos from Rob
== give the 2,000 pesos to mama for one sack of rice, about 48 kilograms of it.
== 3,000 to mila (laundry,cook, all around help at the house, and assist with kenny)
== reload 300 pesos for prepaid cellphone text

DAY 11, June 15, 2009 MON - Kennys Photography

The corn plantation with the coconut trees in the background.

Young coconut seedlings, waiting to be planted.

The coconut trees in the background, while I am cleaning the coconut palms for firewood.

The tamarind tree, right in our front yard with a bird house.

The fruit of a tamarind tree, "sambag" in Cebuano language. To eat the fruit, you have to crack the brown shell and eat the fruit inside. Soury taste! The tree is in our front yard.

The clothes line, after Mila manually washed our dirty clothes from Cebu City.

Robert's MotorBike Honda 155CC TMX with Kenny. This is the first acquisition of soon-to-be Angel Express.

DAY 11, June 15, 2009 Monday

Mama in the background gathering the fallen coconut leaves from the neighborhood.

I am cleaning the coconut palm, but cutting the dead leaves off the hard woody part.

I chopped the woody part in pieces of about 2 feet long using a sharp big knife, we called it "sundang " in our language. It is sharpened manually using a stone sharpener.




Kimberly and Eboy gathered the chopped woods and bring it to the dirty kitchen.

This is the kitchen where we cook our food daily. Inset a boiling pot, with the firewoods below.

(2nd day in Badian)

=== breakfast. beans with rice;
lunch squash with coconut milk and rice;
dinner eggplant with egg and rice

=== mila washed our dirty clothes
=== it rained again at 12 noon, and very windy
=== chat with Rob via long distance over my cellphone, he returned my DOA netbook to Staples business depot.

=== after the wind, the old leaves(coconut palms) of coconut feel down and we gather these for firewood

=== Kenny decided to take pictures of the process of gathering firewood:
1. Mama gathers the coconut palms
2. I cleaned the palms, and cut it to about 2 feet long
3. the kids gather the sticks and put it in the dirty kitchen
4. we burned the dry leaves to clean up our mess
5. kids enjoy the big camp fire until the fire runs out

=== Kenny also decided to take pictures of all the cousins, and dogs and scenery.