Work work and work

This is my fourth and last week working in Cromwell. Last week tuesday (27.1) was last day of the cherry season but my work did not finish. I got job picking other stone fruits and doing other jobs around the orchard. On the first couple of days, we were picking still cherries but after that we were picking apricots. I was not too keen to pick any fruits or climbing on the ladder after I fell from top of my ladder.  I was lucky that I did not hurt myself and I did not fell all the way to ground as I was holding on a branch. Other reason I did not want to pick anymore was that I was not fast enough to make above minimum wage so they could fire me not reaching minimum. Last coupleof days of last week I was pruning the cherry trees, which means that we were cutting unwanted branches off from the trees. It was really fun and it was paid hourly so no need to go fast and reach minimum :) 

Last week we had couple days of fun, too. The company organised massive bbq on thursday for the all workers as  a reward of the hard work in the cherry season. There we over 100 people and lots of food. After the bbq, me and my friend went to the river to have some drinks and swim in the river. We ended up having mud and water fight. It was really fun as it was very hot day so it was nice to cool off in the river. We could not stay too long as we all had work on the next day. 

Last weekend we did not have work because they said that there were not enough work. On saturday we had our own bbq with all the people that were still here as some of them left after the weekend. We are not allowed to have alcohol here as the accommodation so after the bbq, we went again to the river to have some drinks. I had really lazy day on sunday. I did sort and washed my stuff as I know that this is going to be my last week in here. 

This week has not been so great so far as it has been raining a lot. On monday we just had 5 hours of work before we were sent home because of rain. On tuesday we worked 1 hour in the rain piling some post before they sent us home but we went to back to work after 2,5 hours and then worked until 5:30pm. On wednesday morning we only worked for 15 min before we got sent home. We were home for 4 hours before we went to back to work and worked until 5:30pm picking peaches and more cherries :) 

Working here in cromwell has been great experience and I have met great people and got some new friends :) I can say that without them I would have not stayed this long in here. Here is no internet, and nothing to do. It takes over 1 hour to walk to town but even in there is not anything to do.