But everything from the beginning :
When we arrived at the airport in Winnipeg, John ,our host, picked us up and we drove 2 hours to the farm. Its a strawberry farm owend by John and his wife Pam. They are so nice people and always have to tell something out of their lives, cause they traveled 5 month through middle America, where they also bought a property in Costa Rica. Their stories are usually about their time there, about giant spiders, the rainforest and the things they discoverd along the way.
Now they have this nice, small ( well when you consider 14 hectares as small. but compared to the last farm, 100 hectares(!), it is ...kinda ^^) and have three cute children, aged 8,4 and 2. And some geese, which are always escaping from their cage xD
At the first night there was the harvestmoon festival, which we attended. Its a very small festival, organized by the harvestmoon community, which supports local food.
This is where we also met Jon, the other wwoofer! He's from Victoria, BC and we gonna Visit him in january :)
Jeah so the beginning was pretty exciting but the first week we did pretty much the same work every day! Moving runners in the strawberry fields. It was actually pretty cool when the weather was nice. I even got a sunburn but after a while it gets boring and your back and knees start to hurt! So we were pretty relieved when the weather chanced and didn't allowed it to work on the field anymore. So instead we made apple sauce , black currant jam, grape juice,pickles and we baked our first (apple raspberry) pie! Yummy :) it was so cool to learn all These Stuff and we collected so many GOOD Recipes so far! I really get into cooking here!!
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| Row undone and done |
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| The Kids playing "dog" |
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| The Farm |
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| The Fields |
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| some pickles we made |
The birthday :D
On the 20th September was my Birthday. In the Morning i wasn't allowed to Come downstairs till they were singing happy birthday ...and it was so cute. They decorated the kitchen and a day before we baked a cake. Anna, the oldest daughter had her nicest dress on and there where flowers on the table! I got letters from everybody and than suddenly Pam got inside with a huge package from Germany ! Thank you mom :)
It was a nice surprise and now we have lots of German sweets :D
In the evening we went to the cinema, which is pretty cool in glenboro. It looks like its straight out of a western movie :D and actually we wanted to go to a bar after but we only staid for a shot and bought some beer cause the bar was more like a community meeting for seniors ^^ so we walked back to the farm, which is about half an hour outside the city on the highway. When we worked on the field we saw so many big trucks , which were transporting complete houses!!! I never saw this before. I guess it's an American thing xD
Luckily our host had tequila, so the evening was rescued !
Ja that was pretty much my birthday here in Canada. Not A big party but I didn't expect it and I was lucky to spend it with such a heart warmth family!
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| The Cinema in Glenboro :D |
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| my birthday :) |
The adventures :
On our fitst day off Jon, Valerie and me took the car to the spruce woods provincial park , near glenboro to go on a hike in the dunes. It was pretty awesome and so different . You could see the typical Canadian landscape while you were standing on a dune! Yeah mind blowing ...:D haha
We also visited a donkey farm ( what an adventure haha:D). We could pet them and they were not shy at all, actually a little bit sassy to each other and the fur was so soft plus they had babies ajkslajdhaldjei...jap I wanted to say cute xD I also found out that I have a donkey allergy -.- so after a while I had to get away from them but it was worth it to cuddle them !!
But now to the biggest adventure so far.
The day after we visited the donkeys , Pam got out to us on the fields to pick us up and told us that we now go on a plane ride ! First we were "wtf" but then we realized that she was serious about it! We jumped into the car and drove to the brother of a friend of hers , who's job is the spray pesticides on fields by plane and he invited the family for a ride over the area! And just to let you know I'm a little flying sick and it wasn't just any plane , it was a small airscrew machine , in which only 4 people fit in! Jep I was pretty scared but ,oh hell it was so worth it to Jump Over my fears!
The view was incredible !!!! Manitoba is really flat and you could see pretty far ! Also the take off and landing were so smooth, nicer than on a big plane ....I was so bombed after it and proud that I did it!! I can't put it into words how I felt after it :) it was just so awesome.
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| the donkeys :) |
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| in the plane |
The goodbye :
After the magical plane ride , we had only two days left , which were flying by so fast and on Tuesday this week we had to left the Griffins family. It was by far the hardest goodbye cause the family took a place in my heart , especially the children. They were always around (homeschooling , which was kinda weird , cause the daughter learned soap carving and how to make donuts ...no real subjects if you ask me) but anywhere all three were so cute kids and even they sometimes annoyed me you just have to love them! Anna even cried when we had to leave , which was heart breaking and I really miss them. I guess we were kind of her bigger sisters and role models . Anyway we had a 5 hours busride to Regina ahead and the border to Saskatchewan . This is now the third province in our journey and even it's looking kinds like Manitoba , I like it here more . But that could also be connected with the really Big, CLEAN actually really rich house, we're staying at :)
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| Evan, Pam, Anna , me, John, Jon, Valerie and Little Lucy sleeping :) |
But more about it later ;)
Xoxo änni
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