Post 11: Kiwi work 🥝
Monday 13.10. That was the day I started working at the kiwi orchards. Of course I knew it wouldn't be easy, but especially after my first day I was completely exhausted. My neck was really hurting because I had to look up the whole time. Even my eyes were tired from the sunlight. But now after doing around 38h the same job, I'm getting used to it :) It makes fun to work while listening to music, podcasts or audiobooks! What's my job? First I want to clear up a misunderstanding. Until Monday I thought I'm gonna do fruit picking (put the kiwi fruits from the tree into a basket). But what we actually do is thinning (remove some buds to get bigger kiwi fruits). That's what I see every day: The small round balls are called buds. They have the size of a cherry pit. As you can imagine, it's not possible that all of them get to kiwi fruits, so we have to remove some. Thinning rules top 5 1. Triple: Take the two buds on side, leave the king. 2....