Saturday i was up very early and headed up to the hostel and then to the farm for mandrin picking. i was driving today, an old automatic people carrier/campervan. What a heap of rubbish that is! I think ive been spoilelt with power steering! It was very cold, infact, there was ice all over the bins!! Crazy i know. There was 3 from our house, 2 italians from the hous around the corner and then 2 other guys from the hostel. We started early and i started quickly, s...

Tuesday was back to the pumpkins. This was one of the hardest days ive done so far. Not physically but mentally. Mario the boss was on the war path, and unlike other days he was there untill half2 ish constantly telling us we were doing wrong then contradicting himself saying something else. There were some choice words i wanted to say but alass i didnt. I just got on with it. I was sooo bored and the day dragged. Needless to say i was happy when we finished at 4...

Last night i had my tea and just crashed, was asleep before 8 i think. Great...altho my stupid alarm on my watch went off at 4am!! i dont no how it was set but it woke me. anyway i got back to sleep and then got up at 7 o get myself and my lunch ready for orange picking. We set off and got there around 10. When we arrived we were told that we were picking manderins. They are obviously smaller than an orange and the 'bins' are the same size altho you get $55 for t...

SO friday i was up and off to work at 645 with the plumber. We set off and just had some basic chit chat on the way. We stopped off for a coffee after about an hour and then carried on. Just over an hour after that we pulled into some field where he thort we were going. We were going to a 'station' which is basically a huggeee farm which has several houses dottted around on the acres and acres of land so its quite off the beaton track. Turns out we were in the wr...

Yesterday, Wednesday i went off to work with pumkins. Robert, larissa (both german who i live with) and i were picked up at 715 and were there for 740 ish, however, work didnt commence until 8 so we loytered in the cold. Then 8 oclock and a guy came, moved some things around and then came and told me and larissa what to do. Robert has worked there for a while and so he cracked on. Bascically there were 5 large crates of punkins and either side were cardbord boxes...