New day

         Yesterday...hmmmm what did I do? Well ummmm Sophie is back! Also the two new wwoofers came the night before last night and one is called Rachel and the other is called...I forgot. Whoops. Anyways they are brilliant; both of them have graduated from college and have lived in Rome for 4 years! Their Italian is crazy fluent. One of them is originally from Pensilvanyia and now is an English teacher at a summer camp.  Originally however, she majored in music at University...for singing..How awesome is that?! The other, originally from Seattle studied Archaeology and graduated NYU, and after coming to Italy to study abroad, she now manages a tourist thing in Rome and teaches I think.
         Right now is 6:30 am but its nice and cool here. Yesterday was really hot and I had the best time harvesting potatoes. It was really inefficient however, even Marco admitted. We were cursing every few minutes, because the shovel/hoe's we were using to dig were stabbing perfectly beautiful potatoes and we no longer can sell those. Lucca asked me how we harvest potatoes in LA...and I was like, "I got no clue..." I better start my research. Plus I am thinking about finding a farm near LA when I get back to spend some time on and maybe learn a little more about all this. Potato digging was an adventure and a thrill because it took a lot of energy to shovel but it was SO exciting to uncover from the crumbling soil, a few unscathed potatoes; it was literally almost like finding gold/treasure!
        It's surprising how fragile people are when they are in nature though. I was trying to harvest the potatoes without gloves at first and in a few seconds I was being stabbed by sharp weeds and had needles in my foot. I tried to pick up a potato but more weeds in the ground were attacking my thin padded palms. I yelped...it felt like my hand was a water balloon. I was prone to being pierced and harmed by these small and seemingly immobile creatures. I put on my gloves. It was then that I remembered this one movie, in which some wise old man said humans are made of water and when pierced ...it comes out and we die...well something of that sort anyways.
Oh and the farm got a few bikes yesterday, so maybe I'll be able to use one of them, even if they are all man bikes.
Also props to my girls basketball team, because yesterday the two new wwoofers loved the Contact game that I showed them, the one our team always plays on the bus and for long rides and stuff. It was pretty fun. The two wwoofers didn't get enough work yesterday and were playing 20 questions for a while. hahah
Anyways we ate pizza and went to bed late. And when I told the two wwoofers that I was going to visit Rome later on in my stay, they immediately started asking my plans, and came to offer a room at their place. The other one also threw in the fact that, if I wanted to do more than wander the streets, she could work something out, "I mean..I manage a touring business." she said. Hahha, these girls are great and I felt like all of this was too convenient so I'm quite excited, but we'll see how everything works out! They'll be gone before I am, since they can only stay for a week.

well it's a new day and I need to get to work soon. The bells on the farm just rang so that means it's 7:00AM!
<3 em