Notes from the Mango Farm 7 of 10

Hey guys, I've been really slacking on finishing up this "Notes from the Mango Farm" series. This past week, Trish and I have been really busy looking for a new place to live close to Adelaide city. We're finally moving into our new place today! I'm so happy, living in a hostel sucks, even on the farm, I had my own room (albeit in a old school trailer). I'm going to finish this series up soon and put up some photos of some of the travels that happened after. More soon...

Monday, 10/19

Day 10

Today, while I was snapping stems, I had this feeling of Deja Vu. Here I am in a foreign country doing farm work and it feels as if I've done this before, it feels like an echo of an old dream. In the dream, I remember that I'm sitting in a similar position, doing some form of labor, and I'm thinking about money, which is exactly what I was doing at that moment. I've heard before that deja vu is a way that life tells you that you're on the right track.

I also have an old dream that still haunts me. I had this dream in high school where a gang of guys, in a city I've never been to, beat the shit out of me. The details are fuzzy but I remember that the place is foreign. I thought that it might happen to me in college or Taiwan, but it didn't. Thought came back to me today and I decided to do some martial arts training after work.

Water shared a story about how this guy on a bus in town kept throwing trash at him. He asked us at the dinner table what we would do if it happened to us. Ignore him, ask him to stop, move away ...Water did all those things but the guy kept throwing trash at him (Water couldn't move that far away, the bus was full).

I felt angered by the story because the guy was picking on Water probably cause Water was Asian. There's similar stories of Asians getting picked on in Australia that I've heard and I myself experienced such an incident (I will share at a later post). I wanted to say, "Kick his fucking head in!" but then I thought about it. The first person to get angry is the first person that loses. Once you lose your head, someone's going to get hurt. It sucks, but we're the foreigners here so if shit goes down, we'll take the heat.

Water said that he just turned towards the guy on the bus and said very loudly and clearly "Gan ni niang!" (Fuck your mother!) The guy said, "I don't speak Chinese."

Water, "I said you were very handsome."

I thought that was funny, but that's not going to keep that fucking bloke from doing more disrespectful shit towards people.

The mango season is coming to an end soon. I keep asking the big boss' wife, Ruth, but she's still unsure of when they'll finish ("It all depends on how much fruit there is"). We'll see.