For breakfast we had corn cooked over the fire (yummy!!) and chicken (yum!). This does not taste like our chicken. Tastes more like what I remember from my Grandma Poole’s chicken. I just saw this chicken in the yard yesterday. I learned today they do not have last names, just really long names. They go by a shortened version of their long name. I watched Riska as she showed me How to Grate a Coconut–Momma could have used this with all those coconut cakes!! Someone bought a coconut and they grate it for you. In the video she says 1500 rupiah and I respond $1.25–WRONG that is actually $.11. I am not sure you can turn on the electricity for 11 cents.

After breakfast, I went to meet the Grandfather and Grandmother from different sides of the family. The Grandfather is a native healer and the Grandmother knows a lot about using plants as medicine. She told me so much about plants there is no way I can remember it all. The Grandmother is in the middle of the photo holding my hand. The 2 men are brothers to the woman I am staying with. Everywhere I went they fed me. Coconut milk at Grandma’s house and boiled peanuts (Michael Binkley would like them did the best I could to eat a few) and corn at Grandpa’s house. When we got back to the house cake from the baby party last night was waiting!!!