New Zealand - Mandarine Work

That's the Pukenui team with who we were working in the mandarines. The people were from New Zealand (also called Kiwis), Scotland, Tcheck Republik, Argentina, Germany, England, ...

You can see the bus that we go to work. Our break, resting on the ground and also a Pizza party organized by the Latins.

The work consisted in thinning mandarines of the trees so that the ones who are staying could grow bigger.

The first days were very hard, then we start to get use to it.


A the beginning, I thought it was a job for men:) Then, I noticed that the supervisor told me the whole time that I was leaving too much mandarines on the tree. On the other side ,Tina was a bit slower but she always took all mandarines off from the tree. So she was better than I and consequently received incentives who made that she was better paid than I during the first days.

Sorry Nic, but I wasn't more slow then you! Anyway the important thing is that I was better paied ;-)
The only problem in this type of job are the wasps!!!! They were in the trees and sometimes it was impossible to find them so we got stang sometimes!!! Nic got 2 and I've got 3 bites!!! One was horrible, the weather was terrible (raining a lot) and I saw those wasps, I've asked for the Fly Spray but it was to late and this wasp attacked me between the lips and the nose!!!!!! Well, now I am fine! "Shit Happens"!
Ah, Nic and I were nominated the best stripers (apart from thinning the trees, some of them needed an year holiday, so we were taking alls mandarines from those ones)

On the pictures you can see Nic on the party of the last day. He needed to make a real strip ...