October 15th 2010
Okay! So this morning, we addressed the banana garden.
Problem: the wild pigs digging up banana trees.
But currently we are pulling out all the small banana trees so they don't compete for nutrients with the full-grown banana trees.
My question is, why can't we purposefully leave the small banana trees for the pigs?
Rico was working on digging trenches that surrounded the trees so that they could be easily watered, yet last year the wild pigs came and destroyed all of these trenches right after they were dug. Pigs have very strong snouts and can dig up to 3 feet into the ground to root things up!
I was thinking, what if we planted root vegetables or, something the pigs would like, in the areas we wanted to dig trenches, and let the pigs do the work for us?
Anyway, my questions were left unanswered and we continued working on the garden. I was busy pruning the banana trees of their dead leaves.
For lunch we drove to Vasu's cousins.
It was a huge home, and we ate in the courtyard. As opposed to western culture, where eating is usually about conversation and associating while you sit down with other guests and your hosts, in many places I have been in India, eating is about eating! You sit in a row with the other guests and the hosts will come around and keep adding food to your plate, you are expected to eat rather fast. (or atleast in a faster way than I am used to, because once the guests are fed, then others can be fed, and eventually the women- or the cooks then get to eat)
We were given banana leaves and honestly this is one of the biggest meals I have been served yet! Our hosts kept coming with more rice and more food, if you are not quick enough to say no, they will promptly put more on your banana leaf.
After lunch we took a stroll to the beach, which was not even a kilometer away. It was the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. And the water was warm!! I wanted to go swimming so badly but swimming wasn't allowed in this particular spot because the undercurrent was so strong.
As I looked above, there was a convocation of eagles! I had no idea eagles even lived in India!
Okay! So this morning, we addressed the banana garden.
Problem: the wild pigs digging up banana trees.
But currently we are pulling out all the small banana trees so they don't compete for nutrients with the full-grown banana trees.
My question is, why can't we purposefully leave the small banana trees for the pigs?
Rico was working on digging trenches that surrounded the trees so that they could be easily watered, yet last year the wild pigs came and destroyed all of these trenches right after they were dug. Pigs have very strong snouts and can dig up to 3 feet into the ground to root things up!
I was thinking, what if we planted root vegetables or, something the pigs would like, in the areas we wanted to dig trenches, and let the pigs do the work for us?
Anyway, my questions were left unanswered and we continued working on the garden. I was busy pruning the banana trees of their dead leaves.
For lunch we drove to Vasu's cousins.
It was a huge home, and we ate in the courtyard. As opposed to western culture, where eating is usually about conversation and associating while you sit down with other guests and your hosts, in many places I have been in India, eating is about eating! You sit in a row with the other guests and the hosts will come around and keep adding food to your plate, you are expected to eat rather fast. (or atleast in a faster way than I am used to, because once the guests are fed, then others can be fed, and eventually the women- or the cooks then get to eat)
We were given banana leaves and honestly this is one of the biggest meals I have been served yet! Our hosts kept coming with more rice and more food, if you are not quick enough to say no, they will promptly put more on your banana leaf.
After lunch we took a stroll to the beach, which was not even a kilometer away. It was the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. And the water was warm!! I wanted to go swimming so badly but swimming wasn't allowed in this particular spot because the undercurrent was so strong.
As I looked above, there was a convocation of eagles! I had no idea eagles even lived in India!
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