The arrival of Andrea from Germany

Nov. 15th 2012

Andrea arrived as the new WWOOFer yesterday.  She's about 6 ft. tall, skinny, with a strong German accent.  She speaks very good English, Italian, Spanish and of course German.
On her first day at work, we arrived at the olive farm, stripped one baby olive tree which took us about 20 min. and it started to rain.  It was time to leave.  Somehow Gianni always seems to know exactly what is happening with the rain situation.  That is why we left and not waited.  All week he was saying "maybe rain on Thursday".
With a whole day off ahead of us we took 2 umbrellas and went downtown to the grocery store.  I needed salad stuff for the week ahead.  Since I do not go upstairs to Gianni's apartment for supper, I will need some lettuce etc.  I got 2 very large Boston lettuces, a bag of mixed lettuces, a bag of mache(valeriana), a bag of arugula(rucola), a pkg. of tomatoes, a head of radicchio, 3 containers of yogurt, 3 bottles of yogurt drink, a loaf of sesame bread and a bottle of wine.  It cost 13 Euro.  Good deal.
Andrea is 29, single and already does not want to stay the 3 weeks she has committed to.  She will tell Gianni today that she wants to leave after 2 weeks.  It's not the place or the work.  It's because she wants to spend a week in Rome before going back to her previous farm in San Pietro, just a short train ride from here.  She left many of her things there with the intention of possibly spending Christmas with that family.  Like many of the WWOOFers that I have met, they are unsure of going back home until they've done all they could, seen all they could see while WWOOFing.  They are mostly all in their 20's and not sure what they want to be "when they grow up".
The first WWOOFing farm Andrea went to, she left after the first day.  She had to stay in a caravan.  It's a trailer that leaked very badly and was pretty gross to be in.  You never know what the conditions will be like before going to these farms.
Heli made it home in Finland safely.  She was surprised by her husband when he drove 300 miles to Helsinki to pick her up.  She was planning on taking the 6hr. bus ride home.

Since it is still raining, I started a fire in the fireplace and have a pot of beans cooking for minestrone.  All good things for a rainy day.  I started playing chess online against the computer.  Haven't won yet.
I understand they have the 4th Twilight book at the library in English.  I'll have to go check it out.

3 weeks to go to Sicily