Friday, June 1, 2018

A Brief Recap and Some Good Spending Money

I'm currently at Stanford CSA
So there has been a lot of drama here culminating in two people having to leave the Workaway. One person was an eighteen-year-old who was sent here by his father and didn't actually want to be here. They worked with the kid for two weeks trying to help him get motivated but he just wasn't up for it. Then when that went down, someone else took it upon himself to rally the group together to try to let him stay. None of us had all the information and even with what little I knew, it was clear that it was going to be a waste of time and effort and that he was amplifying the predicament. In the end, the person who created the whole bruhaha had to leave too although there were other serious issues under the surface of that as well.
Anyway, today, I finally got my laundry done and got to make money doing a whole bunch of cleaning. The cleaning job started yesterday and had to get done by the end of today because this place is hosting something called the Wolf Run which starts tomorrow. Apparently, someone has been messing up the place a bit and whoever has been running the kitchen needed a ton of help doing the dishes. They were put away dirty and some were greasy. After sweeping and mopping two big rooms, another Workawayer and I cleaned hundreds of dishes and all the surfaces. We did 10 and a half hours of work and we were offered £10 per hour.
The food here has been great as I have yet again happened upon another great chef. (My first Workaway in the Dordogne River Valley was also an official chef.) Tonight we had spicy peanut sauce on organic noodles with some greens tossed in.

4 comments:

  1. Your blogs always make me hungry...today for spicy peanut sauce in noodles..

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  2. Did you find out what Wolf Run is? Curious...

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  3. Hey Char Bar! Great stories about communal living. I'm glad you are there and are making some good connections and sharing ideas and experiences with wonderful chefs. I'm sure people there appreciate your attitude toward hard work.
    What is the weather like? Are you sleeping in the white tent?

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  4. Also, what do you want for your birthday, Hon?

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