Sunday 10/11
Day 2 Mango Farm
I'm so tired. Today we spent 10 hours snapping stems, picking mangoes, pushing mangoes, eating mangoes (when the boss isn't looking). I worked with a team of 7 guys with a mango truck: 1 Australian, Rick (the manager, very casual, well traveled, humourous guy), 1 Japanese guy, Taka (very quiet, but efficient and has a sense of humor) and 4 Taiwanese guys: Peter (the senior mango picker), Tequila (former computer engineer), Ben (more quiet than Taka), Felix (former Math student from Taoyuan) and me, the only Yank.
Rick seems happy to have someone to talk to and shoot the bull with (the other guys speak English as a 2nd language and don't get the dirty jokes). He's a really knowledgeable guy and is teaching me a lot about the way the mango farm works as well as a lot about Australia.
Anyways, I got to wake up at 6am, so off to bed!
The Crew
From Left to Right (foreground): Rick, Peter, Ben, Taka
From Left to Right (background): Felix, Tequila
The Mango Machine
Crew+Machine
Apo Packing Mangoes
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