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Tutunup diaries vol 5


Starting off with some very disappointing news, the grapes we are plucking the leaves from, do not go for wine supplies, just to supermarkets as table grapes..  I have been giving out wrong information.

Tuesday afternoon we were told that we get back to the kiwi fields for a while, woooo, happydance! Back to the higher salary and more relaxing job. We started “training” kiwis. Helping them climb up on the wires we put up a couple of weeks ago. Our babies have grown quite some. Promised to not complain any more, so I don't and actually I don't even feel the need to for once, (only thing - 8.5 hours in the sun, at least the last hour, you still feel like your brain is fried.) although, today afternoon, me, Marion, Sarah and Sinead went back to the vineyard but the salary stayed the same and the work was actually fine, cutting off the disturbing vines. Me and Sinead kept got often carried away chatting about travels and other world wonders, so the time flew but our work quantity suffered a bit. As we were working in the very end of the vineyard Heath took us there and back on his atv. On our way there he accidentally drove through some sprinklers, a cooling shower before the lunch break was perfect!


A while back we decided with Keiu that we are gonna make hitchhiking a habit in here. And it works. Went to grocery shopping to Busselton's Coles again to buy some ingredients for Clair's birthday cake and such, ended up on some very nice deals tho. Our favorite (literally: THE BEST ICE-CREAM) was on sale, and got todays dinner - a bunch of squids for 1 dollar.



Going there: an older guy took us, who has been surfing since he was 12, told us sea and surf stories and drove us through the coastline, to check the wind and the waves. Coming back we ended up on a radio-stars back seat. He works at Radio Hot Fm, on the morning program, which we almost every morning listen in the car on our way to work. So, it's like we had met him before. We were the second Estonians he knows. The first was a guy he met in a bar a couple weeks back. And the guy was a huge hugger… that's definitely a first time I hear that about Estonian men. 

And noooow, a looonnnggg weekend. A.k.a: friday, saturday and sunday off, as Ben, one of the farmers sons is getting married tomorrow in the vineyard. At first we thought it a crazy idea, because of all the flies and such, but today when they were setting it up, it seemed pretty sweet and romantic. Congrats! 

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