My First Week Draws To A Close..

Alexandra War Momument

I should really be sick to death with fruit by now, but I'm actually not! It's pretty hard work, but constantly eating fresh cherries and apricots will do a lot to brighten anyones day! The people I work with are great, there's a real feeling that we are a 'team', it's just a shame I'll only be working with them for a week before the orchards are cleared. Tonight (Saturday) they're throwing a party for two of the girls as it's their birthday tomorrow (Ailine and Michelle).. unfortunately I can't make it because now I have the day off on Sunday I'm going to Queenstown to experience the clubs of New Zealand! Road trip with people I barely know (and don't know all the names of yet) BRING IT ON!

It's amazing how infectious the general friendliness around here is, since arriving a week ago I have already been invited to go to Switzerland for a skiing holiday where Silvano lives and also been told I am always welcome to visit another guy in Berlin. All this in a week? By the time I leave I'll have friends in every country!

Chilling in the Park

We knocked off work early on Friday and it was a REALLY hot day so we all went down to the nearby football field and played some ultimate frisbee followed by 3 hours of football with people from all over the world, I mean it, Africans, Germans, French, Czech Republic, Japanese, South America... the number of nationalities is surreal! These guys from a place near Figi called Vanuato are unbelievably fit, they actually NEVER tire. One guy made $300 in a day when he filled 76 buckets of cherries. You may not understand quite how amazing that is, but to give you some idea most people are earning $100 a day, he tripled that. Safe to say the next morning I ached like MAD from all the barefoot football. Waking up at 6am for physical work was damn hard!