Hi! Sunday is going to be the last day at this address. I have much to tell you about the last two weeks!

When Nuria and Lea left on May 13th, I was the only Workawayer on the farm for a week. Chris told me that Katie’s brother, Adrian, would come and stay for the summer. Because of that, I moved again into the room in the barn where I slept the first two nights with Sabine. There were still four puppies left from Sue’s last trip to Mexico, so I slept with them in my room: the temperature was higher here. I cleaned the floor and had to find some kennels, ‘cause I didn’t want them to walk around in the room all night. I didn’t really mind spending the nights with the dogs at first, but they were pretty noisy, so the next day I moved one of them into the house: I just wanted to have some good nights of sleep.

On May 16th, Adrian(25yo) arrived. He just came from Germany where he stayed 1,5 years with his girlfriend, so everyone was happy to see him again which made the atmosphere nice :) He was really friendly and it was nice that there were some more people on the farm. We even got to play the instruments in the music room in another barn together!

I didn’t really want to be alone on the farm, ‘cause I didn’t know what to do in my spare time there, so I tried to go somewhere by myself every day. One day I took off to go to Butchart Gardens (but you probably saw that already in the pictures I posted this week). On other days, I went hiking in Horth Hill Regional Park between work or went to Sidney to drink something at a cute little restaurant with an ocean view while it was raining. I also went sunset skating near the water (I crashed with my longboard that time: I was so stupid to think I could manage to brake at the end of a steep path while going downhill, but we don’t need to talk about that ;) The sunsets here are so pretty, and it only takes 10-15 minutes to get there while skating!

Last week I also spend 2 days in Vancouver: I’ll post a blog about that trip too.

On Friday, we went on a boat trip: Chris was leaving again to Sayward and they wanted to take me with them on the boat once. It was a beautiful, big, old boat, made from wood. On this day, Freddie (Frederike), the new Workawayer, would arrive so we decided to pick her up in Sidney with the boat. They told me it was the best Workaway pickup they’d ever done. The weather was amazing, and Katie, a friend of hers, Adrian, and I hang out on the deck. Adrianplayed the guitar, Katie sang, Chris drove the boat and Sue made delicious burritos. It was so much fun!!

Back on the farm, I showed Freddie our room and barn: we shared a room and would cook for ourselves. I also set up the room for one of the cats, the other cat would stay in our room. (I’ve slept with more different animals in my room this month than ever!)

On Saturday, I was planning to go sunset whale watching after work. But unfortunately, on my way to Victoria, I got called that the trip was cancelled: the whales were too far away and there was a strong wind :( That was twice now! In the first week, I also tried to go (in Sidney), but there were too less people to go. Saturday would have been the perfect day for the sunset whale watching ‘cause the weather was really good: the rest of the week it would be cloudy and rainy. I’m gonna try to go at the time I’m on Galiano Island (the next address). I really hope it would work!

I did a few nice things with Freddie: we went on a bike ride on the northern side of the peninsula, watched some movies in our room, went to the beach with Sue, Adrien and five dogs, and took one day off to go to Victoria. Victoria was a really nice city next to the water. We did some sightseeing, got into many cute stores, and went to the park for a while. When I was in Victoria, Sarah and Miriam (the two girls from the first address) texted me they were in Victoria too! That was crazy, ‘cause they were in the US far away from me all the time. We met each other short on the street, but they were with other friends and they were already going into a bar where you needed to be 19, so we decided to meet up another time. It was a pity, but I enjoyed seeing them again. Maybe I’ll see them later those weeks, and otherwise, we can also meet up in Germany for example.

I would have loved to do more fun stuff with Freddie: I had a lot more plans for my time here, but since a week I’m sick: I’m having really bad bellyaches all the time, so I’m in bed a few hours a day. During the time I feel okay I try to make my working hours on the farm, so unfortunately there wasn’t much time left to do stuff together… I’m leaving soon here so it’s just bad timing with Freddie being here while I’m not feeling alright. It feels really bad to lay in bed while knowing you only have one week left on Vancouver Island… Also, the weather was pretty good for the first time in weeks: one weekend it was 18 degrees, which is the warmest I’ve seen in Canada till now. Hopefully, the weather is gonna be warm again for a few days when I’m better.

Since Sue is back, I don’t spend my hours in the garden anymore: We did so many other different jobs on the farm! I can’t even keep track: for example, we cleaned and set up the apartment for a lady who was moving in there, we did the four rounds of animals every day, picked up the dead grass and branches around the farm, cleaned the kitchen of our barn (other people left it really gross), and way more.

Right now I’m in Sayward: I got the chance to be at the family's second property up the island for two nights. I’ll tell you about my time here in the next blog :) Next time I write, I’m probably at the last address: I’m seeing forward to it and I hope it’s a nice place. At least it would be great to be on an island again.

I also posted a few more pictures in the map ‘Photos of Saanich’

Bye!