Today, we work as a team. Yan, a guy from Czech Republic, very cool. Benjamin, a german guy friendly too and ‘M’ the Korean guy I met yesterday. We cannot call him by his real name as it is too difficult to pronounce so he said “Call me M”. OK then, M 🙂 The guy who spoke a little bit more english than yesterday was complaining about the work today. He said “I did 2 years at the army in Korea and this job is harder”.
That’s some of the trees and plants we planted along this week.
Our small team is pretty busy. M is in the hole digging as deep as we are supposed to and Yan is crouching behind collecting the big rocks that we must extract. Once the hole ready, we will be able to plant that palm tree waiting for us.
The pic I stole for yesterday’s post 🙂
When the ground is not too rocky, we use that big machine you can see on the ground that allows us to dig faster but the problem is, when you hit something hard, the top part of the thing start to spin and that’s very painful on the wrists, the back or the leg, or everything at the same time. To sum it up, it uses gasoline so it smells! Cool hey? At some point the boss came to give us a hand. This guy is huge and manage to handle the machine by himself. He is also very fit, for sure, after working in that type of job for a while I guess. But for us, skinny backpackers who rarely touched a shovel, that’s pretty hard.
Our beautiful freshly planted edge!
In 4 days, we planted 7 big palm trees, 14 smaller palm trees, 21 bushes, a dozen of hibiscus and that 80m long edge (120 plants I think). I’ve never dig that much in my life haha. The enjoyable part is when we add the final layer of gravel or dirt so it looks well finished and makes the boss very happy. And here, I can enjoy myself. Even the pile of earth become “design” 🙂
The people passing by don’t hesitate to compliment us while they come around, day after day. It’s always a plus to be encouraged like this!
That was a physical week for sure. At first, I was worried that, after a year in New Zealand, I would end up having big calve’s muscle, but at that rhythm I should stay pretty well balanced 🙂 All good.
Bon, si je comprends bien au retour on va t’appeler Musclor ! Schwartzy et Stallone n’auront plus qu’à bien se tenir !
Gaffe au dos quand même, c’est lui qui nous tient toute notre vie, s’agit pas de le foutre en l’air aujourd’hui, tu en as encore besoin !
Tu vois, tu voulais faire des abdos, et bien te voilà servi !
Ca m’a fait plaisir de t’entendre au téléphone Damiano. Je peux t’appeler moi ??? Peut-être que tu peux me donner un numéro de fixe, ou de cabine.
Reposes toi bien aujourd’hui dimanche.
Gros bisous
Maman
Coucou Dam’!!! je reviens sur ton blog après une absence entre travail et vacances en espagne. ( je suis revenue hier et c’était bien top ;-)) j’en profite donc pour me reconnecter à la réalité et je reviens un peu en arrière sur ton blog histoire de me remettre dedans.. en plus j’ai l’impression que tu rajoutes des photos sur des anciens articles non? du coup je m’y perd lol
bref je recommence donc mes commentaires à partir de cet article: vous êtes bien courageux dis donc avec toutes ces plantations!!!! félicitations ça c’est du sacré boulot !!!
Hello Marie. Ooh Espana, Ola que tal? Yep Sometimes I had some pictures on the other articles because the computers I use here aren’t so good so sometimes I see some mistakes here or there. See you soon:-)