Cherry Picking Sensation

I have to start this post by finishing off my tent saga story...

So the morning rolled around where I thought I was gona get this tent off the garage sale girl. Well, turned out she was in a completely different town about an hour up the road! haha so that fell through. But earlier that morning i landed a job just out of a town called Penticton, about an hour south of Kelowna. I organised a ride with these 4 fellas, all from either Quebec or France so they all spoke french and just enough english that we could communicate. So tentless I headed south with 5 of us jammed in a VW Jetta (small sedan) with packs and tents. Tight.

Lucky for me one of them was jumping on a bus to go somewhere else so I asked to buy his tent which he sold to me. So stoked! So Im not wet if it rains...:) My tent saga ended!!

So I have work at a cherry farm. Pretty much I turned up at the farm on Friday avo with these random french dudes that gave me a lift, got a rundown from the orchard owner on how it works then got pointed where to go camp. Must be about 30 pickers staying. Its pretty much tents in amongst the orchards with a little run down shed with kitchen, lounge and bathroom. So I set up camp, meet everyone and soon discover everyone speaks French. Most are from over Quebec way! haha I'm definitly a minority and everyone laughs when I say I'm from NZ and don't speak French, but everyone knows enough English to communicate. So anyway, everyone is "hippyish" i would say. So its like im living in a french hippy commune. haha everyone seems to just smoke pot, pick cherries, smoke more pot, eat and sleep. Then cause we cant pick past 1pm (start at 5am) cause of the heat every afternoon is more or less down to the lake for swimming, more sleeping and yep, more pot smoking! Looks like this week may be a bit of a hazy and relaxed one. Good fun though!

Turns out you can make money picking cherries if you like! I have only done one day, and because I am very amatuer I was also very slow, and you're paid by bucket picked. So my first day, 6.5hrs work and I made a cool $31 or so! haha what a laugh. Will see if I improve by Thursday, if not maybe fruit picking isn't such a good idea! haha its nice chilled work in the sun though :) the good people must make about $160 a day, and what makes it good is you just camp so no accommodation costs! so can be good, i just need to get faster!

So will be doing this till thursday then back hunting for more work. ideal! till then....