Yolitia - working again after 7 months break
Trip Start
Aug 17, 2005
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Trip End
Jul 01, 2006
Jalmolonga, Mexico
Thursday, February 16, 2006
We were pleasently surprised when we found a young family (with 5 month old kid) and onw other worker from Canada (Kalina). Everyone was super-cool, relaxed, freindly and we instantly (after 30 minutes of thinking "we know nothing about farming, what should we do?"), we felt at home and got on with the work.
The days were spent getting up at 7am, working the mornings in the farm - digging, weeding, planting etc, and having the afternoons to relax in the beautiful surroundings. We were in a tiny village (Jalmalonga), and 4km to a larger town (lucky, as we needed our internet fixes and ice-cream)
A view of Malinoco
. The farm had 3 dogs, a crazy cat and a horse, and at times you felt like Dr Doolittle, as the 3 dogs and cat would follow you everywhere (even to the toilet and shower - which were outside) and wait patiently for you to do something to entertain them. One of the dogs (Chleo) had puppies just before we left, which was great - all the dogs seemed to change characters afterwards and Azul the cat just continuued to be crazy.The work we did was satisfying, as we totally transformed a large area of their farm and helped them in becoming more sustainable (eventually they want to have about 25 people living there permenantly). We spent some evenings learning and practising yoga, as Kalina is a yoga teacher, and playing football with the Mexican workers. Considerable time was also spent catching scorpions, and picking the cat out of the bin. When we were there one of the Mexican workers was stung by a scorpion. He lived, but had to pay $100 for the treatment.
We visited a temple / pyramid site that was pearched just over the town, with some stunning views, and spent a whole sunday watching the local Sunday league teams play. We developed (what we thought was) a strong freindship with a local Taco Man (THE nicest Tacos we`ve ever tasted), but in truth he probably jut liked the fact that whenever we arrived, we would without fail consume 5 tacos each.
That`s pretty much all we did, but it was great to be out of big cities and to live in a small village in Mexico. The farm was incredibly beautiful, the people lovely and actually to be working again was strangly nice!!
