From July 20, 2024 to August 31, Chamorro's Academy will be held for the first time. This year's theme is to experience the life of the Chamorro people, the indigenous people of Guam. You will learn the three secrets of coconut that are necessary to make Manha titiyas (coconut crepes): how to choose, peel, and cook them. In this program, you will be able to summarize your experience in a worksheet and complete your free summer research while having fun.

Long before Guam came under Spanish or American rule, the indigenous Chamorro people of Guam lived with nature. Coconut is a rare fruit in Japan, but the Chamorro people have not only taken the juice from coconut fruit, but also scraped the mature fruit for use in cooking and heated it to make oil. Coconut is also an essential fruit, as the outer skin of coconut contains oil, so the outer skin is used as a torch. We decided to hold this program because we wanted people to learn about Chamorro culture through this activity.

According to the Guam National Tourism Organization, the Mariana Islands, which include Guam, were among the first places settled by sailors who reportedly came from Southeast Asian islands more than 4000 years ago. In the first half of the program, you'll learn about who these Chamorro people are and how they've lived in a quiz format, and you'll be prepared to experience their lives.

As coconuts mature, the amount of water in the fruit changes. Immature fruits are suitable for drinking as coconut juice, but as they mature, the endosperm thickens and the parts are shaved to make coconut flakes or squeezed to make coconut milk. In the activity, students learn from the Chamorro people the three coconut himmitsu (how to choose, peel, and cook) depending on the application. In the next step, students learn, cook, and sample Manha titiyas (coconut crape), a home-cooked dish handed down in Guam using shaved coconut and coconut milk.

Finally, you can complete your free study by putting together a worksheet of what you learned through the experience. You will put together a worksheet of the differences between the way of life that you can feel because you are abroad and the wisdom of the Chamorro people that you learned through the activities. You can freely write down what you learned, so each person can complete the original worksheet.