"Experiencing the Culture" by Chana

We went to a Moo-Moo. Instead of having a party if there was a celebration, the people of that tribe would have a moo-moo. My grandpa said that how to remember the name of a moo-moo you remember that you eat Kou-Kou (pronounced Cow-Cow) at a moo-moo (get it? A Kou-Kou says moo-moo). We ate greens (disgusting), cooking banana (disgusting), sweet potatoe (ok) and pig cooked in the traditional ways on a spit (ok). There also was a table of “western” food because a lot of us were from Australia.

here is the food served up on a banana leaf

We went on a walk which was a bit like the hill walk. (Mentioned in the post “First week at Kompiam”). It leads down to a waterfall. I went underneath the waterfall. It felt like someone was jumping on top of my head.

We went to the market and bought sugar cane. Here is a picture of it. You peel off the skin, chew up the insides and spit the rest out. That is almost how they make sugar. People make sugar by crushing the cane, which squeezes out the juice. Then they dry the sugar cane juice, which makes the sugar solid.

sugar cane growing at Lucy and Shamaia's village

eating sugar cane