First Coconut Tree

    Here is the First Coconut tree in the Marshall Islands. This can be really important to all people in the world. This story was told by Laman who lived ion Majuro Atoll. Laman wrote about one man and his mother. These two people lived on an island which has no trees and everything accept sand bar. At night, he saw a human being who took a ripe coconut and told him to plant it. He woke up and told his mother about his dream. His mother told him to do what his dream told him to do. he follow his mother's words. Here, he plant the coconut on the sand bar, and it was gettig bigger and bigger. His mother told him not to touch it until it getting ready to taste it. The coconut tree was getting bigger. It is now have many coconuts in it. He and his mother were trying to see whether is good or bad. It was good and delicious water they ever drink. From that moment this coconut tree made many coconut on the sand bar. Now, this sand bar turned into an Island. As i read this story, it make me sad because today many Isands are less coconut than houses and everything. I see many Marshallese people don't care about our resources. This is one of the important tree in the Marshall Islands. Its can help people especially young people, so that they would learn the importance of coconut tree to the Island s geology and soil, and to their economy and life----indeed for our survival.