The following week I had been working everyday from 5:30 am to 5:30 pm. After 4 days I got my first mangoburn (on the knees),it burnt and itched very hard.

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Every morning I woke up with pain in my fingers but my only thought was to earn as much money as possible and not taking too much damage to myself . :/ On Sunday I became a cherrypicker (it was meant as a gift from the host-father, because I was a good, reliable and strong worker. Cherrypicking means, that you are picking mangoes from a machine (like a crane) which you can navigate by your feet (there are three pedals, the left one for going right, the right one for going left, and the one in the middle for moving  up and down). 🙂 It sounds easy but in fact, it isn’t. I started to work… but it wasn’t long, when I happened to crash heavily against a mango tree and ended up with a very huge cut in my finger ( later on that day one of the other cherrypickers broke his finger, because of such an accident, so I have to call myself lucky). Later on my water bottle (10L) fell down, and my lunch box, too. :/ No meal and no drinking for 12 hours? :0  After 5 hours of hard picking-work without having anything to drink, luckily the supervisor gave me some water. 🙂  I was going to spend 13 hours on this machine,  all alone, in the middle of mangoe rows. I felt absolutely lost and lonely, while always, at the same time, I  had to keep control over the machine. :/  After two hours I  started to talk to myself,  because I was so desperate and needed to get myself in a better mood. I started to make fun of myself and let my mind wander ( family and friends I MISS YOU SO MUCH 🙁 <3 ) I was slowly starting to cry  and  felt relieved afterwards. Towards the end of  that day I had filled 3 bins ( 35 AUD per bin), that was definitely not as much as I had hoped to earn, and worst of all:  I got sap burns in my face, too. I wasn’t satisfied at all

My camera has given up so I couldn’t take photos while I was cherrypicking but I will  try to buy a new one as soon as possible. 🙂