Chapter 1: Bright Lights 5

Owel decided not to cook the snails and the ferns that Arnie and the others pick at the river. They all agreed to cook it tonight at Arnie's house.

Hey..... hey..... what's that huh??? me too, I'm going to bring young coconuts and sugar, there is a banana tree that was knocked down by the storm with young bananas in the back of our house, we can make pound mashed bananas and sweetened young coconuts. Marcial intervened

Obet, Owel, Jr you guys get some young coconuts later I already have a half kilo of sugar. Just buy some more with Obet and Owel. Marcial added.

Jr: ok, I'm going to clean up the pound and mortar later when we got home before we get bananas and young coconuts.

they happily swam in the river, Owel, Obet, Jr, and Marcial had a contest of jumping in the water on a stump of wood at the top of the river's wall.

After a while, they urged the others to eat when they get tired of swimming.

At night, Arnie is boiling the raw bananas for pound mashed banana while Helen is cooking the sweetened young coconuts.

they just finished having dinner. Spicy hot snail and ferns with coconut milk, fried dried slip mouth fish, stewed in vinegar shoemaker fish, stewed in vinegar tuna fish, and vinegar braised anchovy for viand.

They happily eat together with Arnie's parents and siblings.

The raw bananas and the sweetened young coconuts are already cooked. let's peeled the bananas together so that they can start pounding it, Arnie urged her friends.

Jr finish grating the coconut that we're going to use, banana is the one that is not finished yet, she hastily added.

They finished peeling the banana faster, Jr, Obet, Owel, and Marcial pound the banana alternately until the banana is soft and firm and the sweetness is just right.