My parents daily work

My parents work hard every day to make a living. They mainly do two things: prepare and sell a vegatable called Spie at the market, and make and sell cigarettes. The entire process for preparing and selling the Spie takes almost 24 hours. A man comes and delivers bulk Spie to my family in the afternoon. They sit outside and cut off the impurities. They then drag the veggies to the backyard and cook them for 30 minutes. After that I am unclear on this stage of the process other than they are washed a lot and cooked. After dinner more things are done to the veggies until about 9pm. My parents wake up at 4am to continue to prep the veggies to sell at the market. My mother goes to the market probably around 5am and comes home around 9 or 10am. The veggies are delivered again in the afternoon.


Spie(Veggie in Lettuce family)



My father dragging spie to the back yard to boil

My family also makes and sells cigarettes. My mother and father both roll them from these huge bags of tobacco and other similar leaves that are delivered to our home. They mainly do this in the late morning before the next shipment of Spie is delivered. These huge brown spiders like to hang out in the tobacco so I usually steer clear of that area. People are always coming to our house to buy them because they are cheaper than the ones from the vendors(probably because they are not taxed). I believe my family sells them for 3 for 100 reil (100 reil is about .024 USD). That's less than a penny!


The materials for making cigarettes (tobacco, glue, paper)





My mother rolling cigarettes and chatting