In Indonesian, a kelapa is a coconut and kepala is your head. Needless to say, a lot of beginners to the language (as well as some veterans) mistaken one for another.
This afternoon, I went out to the village of Miruk Tamen in the Darussalam district of Aceh. My boss was in town and wanted to check a village that he hasn't been to in awhile. We checked out their vocational training center and then the 30 hectares of rice paddy and 3km of irrigation we helped to clean up. On the way back to the car, my boss comments on the plentifulness of coconut trees. One of the villages immediately asked if we wanted some, while the other started to climb up one of the trees with a big-o machete. He hacked down about 15 coconuts from the tree, quickly slithered down and started hacking away the skin of the young coconuts with his big-o machete. Within minutes of the coconuts hitting the ground, I was drinking out of one.
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