Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Rice Harvest

A few weekends ago I went with my roommate, Enny, to visit her family again and also to see the rice harvest in her village.

In the morning we decided to cross the river to go to the market and pick up some food to give to the workers. The only way across the river is these little gondolas.





In the market we got these sweet sticky things with coconut on top


And Enny insisted on taking a photo of my on the boat


Here's a photo of the rice fields right before they were ready to be harvested.


After the plants were cut, men would carry the piles of rice to the machine to separate the grains


And women would shake out the left over leaves to get any grains that the machine may have missed








This guy was taking some of the plants....somewhere, i'm not sure. But he really wanted me to take his photo. Everyone thought it was very funny that there was a white girl there taking photos of them.




You can see the machine in this photo










This is Enny's Aunt, a very hard worker






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