Copra

Every day life in Wotje is good. The people in my home atoll always want to work on making copra, from coconuts. Many people around the Marshall Islands are working on copra every day. Copra is what keeps us alive. We can drink it, eat it and earn money from it. Making copra is not an easy thing to do. It is hard to rip out the meat from the copra skin, but the people manage to do it. The people can live longer by working with their copra every day. After they rip off the meat out from it skin, they dry it over the warm fire or under the sun. My family dries the copra over the fire because it is the fastest way to dry it. After that, they fill the copra pieces into the bag and get them ready to be weighed. The people use material such as knives, axes, bags, wheel barrow, and steel stake. People used axes and stakes to cut and take off the husk, and bags and wheel barrows to collect the copra and pile them together in one place. People use knives to cut the copra into small pieces. Although harvesting copra is not an easy thing to do, my family does it to earn money.