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Monday, April 23, 2012

Nenita visit 5

This morning super early I got woken up by a roster. I got very angry. Since I was awake I said to myself "Hey Im awake now theres no use sitting in this hut, I might swell go down to the beach and see the sun raise." It was magnificent!

When I went down to the beach I saw Nenita there and so I went up to her and asked her why she was there so early she said "Ever since my husband died a couple of years ago, I have been coming down here every morning and thinking about him." There was a small pause then I asked "If you don't mind me asking, why do you come to the the sun ride and not say, the sun set?" I could tell that that hit a sore spot in her heart but she slowly answered, holding back tears. "Its because he was a fisher man and he spent most of his time on the water, and then one rainy August afternoon he was out fishing for the family and he got killed in a surprise typhoon." Long pause... Then I felt really awkward because I brought up the subject and now I had no idea what to say, so I just said "Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that." Then Nenita said after clearing her throughout "Oh, it's okay, why don't we go inside and we can make so breakfast." So we went up to her hut and collected some fresh eggs and we made scrambled eggs. They were some of the best scrambled eggs I had ever eaten, probably because they were so fresh.

Since today is Sunday we had to load up Nenita's banana and charcoal stand for the next day. Nenita makes all of her own charcoal at her sisters farm and gets the bananas form her sisters farm  also so they have to split the earnings. But, before we went to her sister's farm Nenita played me this song on her little music CD player, this is the song music video.




After she played me this song we took a hour long taxi ride to her sisters farm and them we got straight to work Nenita's sister is a sweet women she has a couple of children and a husband her farm is quit large but not that big. she had about an acre of just banana trees, a big pile of charcoal in the making and some livestock that Nenita trades for extra money. It is very weird how to make charcoal but the basic ideal is burning wood in a really weird and difficult way. Some of Nenita's sister's children were helping us pick bananas.  Reason that Nenita sells the charcoal and bananas and livestock and not the sister is that the sister has HIV/AIDS and is slowly dyeing Nenita is one of 6 though so it's not like she dose not have a small family but the rest of them live far way. After about 4 hours of harvesting bananas and making charcoal we took a community pick up truck to Nenita's store and we loaded all the bananas and charcoal on to the selves the stand looked pretty good her is a picture of Nenita in front of her stand.

Then we had to take the community pick up truck back to Nenita's sisters neighbors house so after we did that we went back to Nenita's sister's house. at her house we sat on the porch and we drank ice tea that and the tea is grown in the area and it was delicious! It was so relaxing on the porch that I dosed of for a while when I woke up Nenita's sisters ids had drawn a mustache on my face in charcoal and they were all surrounding me waiting for me to wake up and see my reaction. When I woke up I jumped up and screamed "ROAR" and all of the kids surrounding my screamed and then ran away laughing so I chased after them and we played a fun game of hide and go seek tag. After a couple of rounds Nenita yelled at us from the porch "kids come inside it is time for dinner," so we all ran inside and all of the kids libeled in to the door way it was pretty funny. For dinner we had fresh chicken and she vegetables. For dessert we had fresh bananas they we simple and delicious! After we finished dinner we said god bye and thank you to Nenita's sister and I hugged all of the kids and then we caught the last buss going back to were Nanita lives. Once we finally got home we both were very tired so we said good night and went to bed. Right before I went into a deep sleep i was sad to think that tomorrow I had to get on a plane again and leave Nenita. Then I fell asleep.

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