Shrimping!

My host mom's family owns two shrimp farms.  GN 1 and GN2.  Each shrimp farm has 60 units (and a unit is pretty big).  So in total they have 120 units of shrimp.  Due to the fact that there were midterm tests, and I didn't have to do the tests, my host mom needed something to do with me, so she took me to her place of work. 

 One of the ladies who works there sorting the shrimp into big and small.  I found out that it isn't all that easy to differentiate the sizes because as far as I can tell it isn't based on size, but on color, and other features.  They could do it extremely fast, and I couldn't do it at all, i honestly couldn't tell the difference, and they laughed, and attemped to help me, but eventually decided I would be better situated with a different job. 

 The same lady attempting to teach me how to tell what shrimp was what size, without much success.  There were a lot of shrimp to do, and I kept getting it wrong. 

 A picture taken by one of the workers of me sorting shrimp with my host mom (in the orange shirt) and some of the other people. 

 Loading the baskets of shrimp into the back of the truck.  Each basket would have 20 kilos of shrimp.  They would dunk them in water, and then stick them in large barrels, packed with ice and water to keep them cool. 

 One of the workers emptying a basket of shrimp onto the sorting table. 

 Dumping the shrimp from the collection barrel into another bucket.  These shrimp will then be put in a basket and sent over to the sorting tables. 

 Throwing the baskets of shrimp to the sorting table.  Not exactly a gentle proccess, more of a "let's get it done, and not dilly dally" kind of process.

 A view looking at all of the shrimp, eventually this table will be baren of shrimp.  I was amazed at the amount of shrimp that were sorted and stuck into a truck.  It's not unusual for there to be over 200, 20 kilo baskets put into a truck. 

 Looking down the original sorting table and some of the workers.  Here the shrimp will be sorted into: big, small, soft, and other piles, and then sorted down to be more specific at a different table. 

 The process of putting the shrimp from the baskets into the trucks.  As you can see there are a lot of baskets that have been sorted.

The end of the day.  Everyone had a different way to get home.  Some rode their motorcycles/scooters, others got in their truck, or in the worker truck (sitting in the back of a big truck)(kind of like a cattle truck, but not really).  Then there were these people.  There were about 10 of them who all piled into the truck, a few in the front, and then the rest of them smooshed into the back of the truck.  This is actually a common way for people to travel, and you can see them like this all over town, even in the larger cities.