Dear Family, dear Friends,
finally I´v arrived in Canada. I just wanted to give you a quick Update About my first days on the farm, my every day schedule, my Arrival, and other stuff. I will put in front of every section some bold Text, which says what this section is About. So for all of you, who just want to read About my Arrival, or my Trailer or whatever. There you go:)
Currently it´s 2.48 am in Germany, so all of you might sleep, instead of People like Finn W. or the Party People like Pauline, Anna-Lena (just because of our “Abitur-Zeitung”). Today is Thursday, 20:50 pm.
ARRIVAL: I flew on Monday from Düsseldorf to Lisbon. This Flight was quiet good, there haven´t been a lot of People in the ariplane. When I walked in, I was like “OMG, Corona is effecting every part of cultural and Business life, but I was happy because I had enough space for my whole Body, but especially for my legs. Finally after three Hours I´ve arrived at 18:00 pm in Lisbon, I´ve got 2 Hours until my Flight to Toronto started. i went to a calm place, I ate something, then I had a second time Passport Control and cause of Covid, the staff checked Fever at the gate. However, 20:00 pm, Tom is sitting in the plane… Direction: Toronto. The airplane to Toronto was like the airplane to Lisbon. Maybe 50 People in there. I had three seats for myself. This was so cool, because I was able to Sleep while flying. The Stewardess asked me just after my “Power Nap” – “Excuse me Sir, what would you like to eat and drink – we´ve got chicken and pork?” My answer: “Chicken with Rice and an Astra please – and do you have as well a HansenRum (Grüße an alle die schon einmal im Silbersack in HH gekokst haben;)) – Of Course I didn´t said that, but I´ve got another beer. The Food was OK – I think you don´t have to say a lot About Airplane-food xD. After 8 Hours and 13 Minuteswe´ve landed. By now it was 23:00 pm local time. I just wanted to pass the Immigration Office for my visa and then grab my luggage, but of Course something goes wrong. The Border Officer told me that he can´t print my Work and Travel Visa because of technical issues. I was like ” Shut the F*ck Up, Give me my Visa, I take my cab, go to the farm and into my bed” – So now I have to come back to Toronto-Airport after my Quarantine… Neverless, I´ve grabed my luggage, ordered an UBER and went to the farm. The UBER Driver was so nice, he came from India, we talked the whole drive. After one hour we arrived at the farm at 2.23 am. I´ve called Sandra, a Wwofer, she came out and showed me everything. Finally after my short 10 minutes Show, I went into my Trailer, where I will pass my quarantine for the next two weeks. The Trailer is quiet good. The bed is cuddly and soft, I´ve got a kitchen, a bath and a Corner to sit ( Currently, while writing, I sit in this Corner). So, the Trailer is OK for two weeks. However, I went into the Trailer, droped all my stuff and went to bed. I was so tired. Even so, I was so tired, I woke up at 7:00 in the morning. But this is where the first farm day begins. You can read it right away. As written above, pay attention to the Bold Letter. But before that I have to write something. The hardest Thing of this day hasn´t been the space in the airplane or the arrvial, the Trailer or the Point hat I didn´t get my visa. The hardest thing on this whole day was the in-flight, which I won’t see my friends and family for more than 8 months now, especially in relation to my parents. Saying goodbye at the airport was so difficult. My parents were as bad as I was. But I had tried to express so little of my sadness because I thought it would be so easy to say goodbye. According to the motto Quick away… Anyway… that was the worst. In this sense @Mama @Papa I love you and look forward to our reunion all the more. Looking forward to a time in Canada now, I’m looking forward to everything. But now enough with the emotion. Next section.
My first days – Tuesday until Friday: So like I already said, It was 7:00 am, I woke up and was like ” WTF – that´s not possible, how the hell Can i be awake.” After a Little breakfast, I started a walk on the farm to check out everything. I´ve met Cora(28), Lisa(20) and Lina(18), three other Wwofer. They are nice and I´m happy to have some People to talk to. Probelm is they don´t like Talking. So it´s something like a ONE_MAN_SHOW:) But that´s not a Problem, because we´ve got Sandra. Sandra Comes also from Germany, Stuttgart, she´s 30 years old and so cool. She likes Talking a lot. Furthermore she´s already since 8 months in Canada and saw a lot. For that reason I love Talking with here, because she can give me some advices About what I can do or what I should do in my year abroad. After my Little walk I got to know Debbie and Shain, the owners of the farm. They are sympathetic and a Little smanded. After a short talk, I had my first Task. I wanted to do something, because it would be boring, sitting all the time in the Trailer. So I was allowed to go out of the vegetable bed for dinner, pick up some vegetables. First Job done, I was like ” Hell No, this took me just 20 minutes and now the day is still not over – what should I do the next 9 Hours. But this wans´t a Problem. Christa, a 50 year old mother from Germany came to Canada one year ago and would like to get permanent resident, gave me a lot of Things, which have to be done. So, after this, work was done and it was already 5:00 pm and the day was over. Then I´ve ate something in my Trailer, checked social media and went to bed. Wednesday: It was 5:00 in the Morning and I wasn´t able to sleep anymore, for that reason I went outside with a hot tea, some breakfast and enjoyed the sunrise. It was Incredible. People on the farm told me that sunrises in Canada, especially in Winter would be amazing and so much better than in Germany. So now I´m waiting for some other spectacular sunrises in Winter. However, 3 Hours later, my work started. Christa gave me my schedule. I had to feed the alpacas, clean up the tool room, paint some signs, build a wardrobe for Shain and a lot of other Things. So because of the work which I had to do, the day was so fast over. I had between my work a hour lunch-break, where I ate something. Finally we went on a walk together with Bakiri and Arya (Greetings to all “Game of Thrones”-Fans), two dogs, who are so georgeus. The walk was quiet good. After our walk I ate something in the Trailer, chilled afterwards with some other Wwofer and went to bed. Yesterday, I woke up, and the day was, from the course of the process, the same. At the afternoon we made a Long walk, took some nice pics, while sunset. Then Sandra went to the store, and brought me some groceries. Chips, beer, coke:) I was so happy being able to drink something else than water for 4 days. I ate Broccoli, some pork and other delicious Food. At the evening we sit in front of the Trailer together with Sandra, Lina and Cora:) We drank something together, told stories and looked at the starry sky. I’ve also seen several shooting stars. Around 10 p.m. it was already so dark that the coyotes came out and you could see them just 100 meters from the farm and hear them. But we don’t have to be afraid, because Arya and Coonan would drive out the coyotes and if they got too close, they would be crushed. After this exciting and cool evening I went to bed. Friday: Get up, my daily morning routine: Feed alpacas, remove the shit and the hay and then start the day. Now I sit at noon, eat something and write on the blog. Follow again. It is in this spirit that I must now continue to work. My next post post I will upload the days or next week. Until then, like to write to me on WhatsApp, I’m happy.
Your Tom
Canada Work&Travel 