Saturday, November 10, 2012

Heli leaves

NOV. 11TH 2012

After 3 weeks together, working our butts off, Heli is leaving.  She will be staying in this area for 3 days vacationing until she flies home to Finland.  She has been my roommate and workmate.  She was only scheduled to stay the 3 weeks so will be replaced by another WWOOFER  from Germany on Tuesday.  This afternoon after working all day we took the train to Bari so she could rent a SMART car at the airport.  We drove back to the apartment and tomorrow we will drive to Alberobello and maybe Locorotondo for a much needed day off from picking the olives.
Heli is a Swedish language teacher to high schoolers in Finland.  When a teacher in Finland teaches for 5 years, they are entitled to take a full year off from teaching and still get paid a portion of their pay.  This is what Heli did.  She has been away from home for almost 3 months.  But tomorrow we will be free to travel and NOT pick olives!  We are very happy about this.

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