{"id":2037,"date":"2012-08-19T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2012-08-19T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:16:39","slug":"they-dont-do-these-things-in-america-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/2012\/08\/19\/they-dont-do-these-things-in-america-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"They Don’t Do These Things in America – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides climbing tall papaya trees <\/strong>(click here to read Part 1<\/a>), Luke and Titus have done a few other things here in Papua New Guinea that they wouldn’t have learned to do in Pennsylvania<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since coming to PNG, we’ve learned a lot more about banana trees<\/strong>.\u00a0 Banana trees are everywhere here and while they all looked pretty much the same to us when we first arrived, there are a myriad of different varieties of bananas.\u00a0 It’s pretty cool to watch the blossom appear and then before you know it, little hands of bananas are forming and growing.\u00a0 When the bananas are close to ripe, the whole tree is cut down.\u00a0 Luke and Titus have fun helping to chop down the trees with a machete.\u00a0 Don’t worry, they’re careful!\u00a0 You might be interested to know that kids here start using big knives and machetes at a very early age.<\/p>\n

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Luke chopping down a banana tree with his machete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The tree is down!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Now we just have to wait for them to ripen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A little friend we found in one of our stalks of bananas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Another thing that grows in abundance in the coastal lowlands is coconuts<\/strong>!\u00a0 And as with bananas, we have learned a lot more about coconuts since we have been here.\u00a0 Coconuts at different stages are used for different things.\u00a0 Young coconuts can be opened and contain what has been referred to as the perfect rehydration drink.\u00a0 The meat is soft and is a yummy treat.\u00a0 Older, dry coconuts are opened and the meat scraped out to use in different ways for cooking.\u00a0\u00a0 Lately, Titus has been trying to come up with different ways to remove the husks from coconuts that he’s gotten from a tree in our yard.<\/p>\n

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Titus working away on another coconut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The finished product<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And what about Caleb<\/strong>?\u00a0 We don’t want to leave him out of this post.\u00a0 He’s quite accomplished at giving himself papaya facials and using banana hair conditioner!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Caleb's two favorite fruits - "nana" (banana) and "popo" (papaya) - happen to be ones that squish very easily!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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***And just in case you wanted some proof about young kids here having knives, here is a photo of a friend’s son and the toy she gave him to keep him occupied while she worked in the garden.<\/p>\n

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"You sit here in the shade while I work in the garden. Here's a knife for you to play with."<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the photo was taken, this boy was about the age that Caleb is now!!\u00a0 No, we’re not planning on giving Caleb his first machete just yet (or anytime in the near future).\u00a0 Titus is next in line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Besides climbing tall papaya trees (click here to read Part 1), Luke and Titus have done a few other things here in Papua New Guinea that they wouldn’t have learned to do in Pennsylvania. Since coming to PNG, we’ve learned a lot more about banana trees.\u00a0 Banana trees are everywhere here and while they all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-png-culture","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}