Sunny weather and yet another trip to the airport

I have a dozen of draft blog entries on the past days, but in order to post something at least decided to fill in the gaps later and bring this very day first.

Now I am officially the last trainee in trainee house. Herlina from Indonesia and the yesterday-arrived Book from Thailand spend this weekend here but usually live in their farm about two hours train ride away, Souhei from Japan lives in his project as well, and the community development team consisting of Jill from Luxembourg and Jule from Germany stays with a host family here.

Rusydan from Indonesia was in their team as well, together with his project manager Lewis the four of us accompanied him to the train station, and Lewis, Souhei and me went all the way to the airport as well.

Before that, with the three girls and Lewis we went on a nearby mountain that is currently holding a cherry blossom festival which Jill and Jule are documenting for their project.

Please excuse the various inside jokes!

on my own... not alone :)

 With the other two trainees left, I start my third week as follows:

Monday

6:30 picked up by aunt & uncle at the street in front of the trainee house, around half an hour drive
7:00 sweeping the floor, taking out the goat
7:20 harvesting mountain garland chrysanthemum (山茼蒿 shān tóng hāo)
8:30 coffee break
8:45 harvesting gynura bicolor (紅鳳 hóng fèng, lit. "read phoenix")

11:40 washing dirt and marker labellings off of laminated plates from cleared patches
12:10 taking off gloves & boots, washing hands, helping to set the table, lunch

(Korean style!)

12:30 washing the dishes

12:40 sorting the gynura bicolor leaves collected earlier

14:00 clearing out a whole patch of aged cabbage (after collecting some of better quality) by pulling the plants out and piling them up on a wheelbarrow; once full delivering it to the chicken pen, all in all four times

16:20 while the patch is undergoing the second step of being cleared out, cutting down weeds in the space next to the greenhouse with a knife to prevent them from growing inside

16:40 coffee break

(delicious engagement cake made with red azuki beans -
had to promise uncle I'd send them this exact one when it's my time ;) )

17:00 goat is being brought back to it's stable, preparing the working space

Vegtable packaging: auntie is weighing, I roll up the pad and slide the vegetables in the plasic bag and shake the edges trying to even them out, uncle tapes the bags shut and places them in the basket.

18:30 cleaning up, locking the doors
18:45 driving home

Oh! But what's that? Today we stopped on a night marked and I got to try dang gui mian xian (normaly with duck), noodles in a soup made from Chinese medicine (Angelica sinensis) for dinner.