First major difference is the cycle of a week. People are used to five days of work, a weekend and sometimes holidays. But in village you will never get the meaning of a free day - jobs are waiting everyday and for example you can't say to the animals that you are tired and won't feed them or milk the cows. The day starts at 6 AM and lasts around 12 hours with only a few moments to take a breath. Be prepared for endless hard-working. And you think bad weather or coming Christmas will change it? Nope, it will only give more problems.
And what offers repertoire? Some of them are seasonal like hay-making, potato-lifting, harvest, sowing and others. Most of them are in summer (good bye summer holidays), and only few in winter (preparing food for animals, there is no grass so it requires much more effort). And some of them are alywas - preparing food for animals that can't eat on a grassland, cleaning after them, sometimes taking care of birth of new animal.
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Your village and sunsets there look soo beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see one of them in the flesh some day.
"You always have food because you produce it."
ReplyDeleteThis is paradise!