Donnerstag, 23. November 2006
...tomorrow it'll get better...
la.cigale, 08:08h
But before the weather got better it first snowed and our hands froze when we picked in the mornings with minus 3 degrees. BRRRRrr! Not Oz like I expected..
tHE weather made us have less work than we wanted though. However, by now it warmed up to about 35 degreed during the day and after a week of little fruit and crippled trees we now started to pick the trees in blocks... means BIG cherries and lots of cherries and I guess today I made almost 200 dollars.
Cherry picking is good money...
Work isn't very hard. Only the hours are weired. If all goes well we can pick till 2 pm. We start pretty early, we get up at 5 am. Means: Our parties are always over pretty early... Quality over quantity.
The days we got off last week because the fruit wasnt ripe yet meant long days in the heat with not much to do. So about eleven ppl squished in Dave's van called Jezbelle and off we went to find a lake in the red desert 150 km away.
The lake wasn't as spectacular as we expected because it was half drained due to the heat and we had three wounded after half an hour of playing frisbee (rocKy beach) but we still enjoyed the trip a lot.
and i saw my second kangaroo (alive):
The people here are great. The weather would have definitely chased me away long ago if I didn't enjoy their company that much.
At least half of us play the guitar - and luckily Dennis brought one - so we work on a cherry picking song at teh moment...
Starts off like this:
Millions of cherries
cherries for me
Moving to the country
where I want to be....
... and goes on quite a bit.
The rest of the time we swim in a little pond on our farm just over the hill beside teh camping grounds wich is always awaiting for a refreshing dip.
go to Young, the next biggest town... but mostly we lie in the shade and talk talk talk cook and talk..
I feel like knowing the ppl here very well athough I just met them a week ago.
CHEERS\
caro
tHE weather made us have less work than we wanted though. However, by now it warmed up to about 35 degreed during the day and after a week of little fruit and crippled trees we now started to pick the trees in blocks... means BIG cherries and lots of cherries and I guess today I made almost 200 dollars.
Cherry picking is good money...
Work isn't very hard. Only the hours are weired. If all goes well we can pick till 2 pm. We start pretty early, we get up at 5 am. Means: Our parties are always over pretty early... Quality over quantity.
The days we got off last week because the fruit wasnt ripe yet meant long days in the heat with not much to do. So about eleven ppl squished in Dave's van called Jezbelle and off we went to find a lake in the red desert 150 km away.
The lake wasn't as spectacular as we expected because it was half drained due to the heat and we had three wounded after half an hour of playing frisbee (rocKy beach) but we still enjoyed the trip a lot.
and i saw my second kangaroo (alive):
The people here are great. The weather would have definitely chased me away long ago if I didn't enjoy their company that much.
At least half of us play the guitar - and luckily Dennis brought one - so we work on a cherry picking song at teh moment...
Starts off like this:
Millions of cherries
cherries for me
Moving to the country
where I want to be....
... and goes on quite a bit.
The rest of the time we swim in a little pond on our farm just over the hill beside teh camping grounds wich is always awaiting for a refreshing dip.
go to Young, the next biggest town... but mostly we lie in the shade and talk talk talk cook and talk..
I feel like knowing the ppl here very well athough I just met them a week ago.
CHEERS\
caro
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