Another long day in the orchard is over. Apple picking is a fucking hard and poorly paid job. Today we did „real“ picking – you have to watch which apples you pick, they have to have the right color and no defects on them. The pay still works out to be much better than juice apples though – in addition to much more fruit on the tree you get paid twice as much per bin if you pick good apples and get a bonus. I picked my first bonus bin in under 3 hours – not too bad.
Unfortunately in the afternoon it was worse. It was the first pick in another block and most of the apples were not ripe or they were sunburned and therefore not good quality. This time I got no bonus bin. Luckily I get paid on hours today, so it doesn’t really matter.
In the evening the boyfriend of my neighour C. dropped off a big dish of pork, vegetables and potatoes. Lucky to have friendly people around, so I didn’t have to prepare my own dinner, just eat – mmm.
That’s a big difference from home, everyone is helpful and friendly and shares almost everything with you!