Each year the staff at CEV volunteer to help out the local farmers. This year we volunteered to help a local farmer harvest garlics. David and I had to write a report about our experience for School, so I will attach mine!
Garlic
Farming
Changnyeong
English Village
Becky
Rhone
Date:
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Tuesday 5th
June 2012
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Farming
in Gyeseong, Changnyeong
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Today all of the staff from
Changnyeong English Village took part in garlic farming in Gyeseong,
Changnyeong. This was new and an extremely interesting experience for me. At
around 10am Richard and Suzi took us to the local fields and showed us where
we would be working. Richard introduced all of the staff to the local farmer,
Bae Jeong Man. After some introductions the farmer showed us how to pick the garlic
correctly. It appeared pretty easy but I was sure that it would be harder
than it looked. At first I thought the garlic farming was easy but after a
while I realised that I was farming a lot slower than everybody else. I tried
my best to keep up but I just couldn’t! The men were pulling up the garlic’s incredibly
fast. It was tough trying keeping up with them. After around forty minutes
pulling up the garlic’s in the hot sun, we all had a break. The farmer. Bae
Jeong Man kindly bought everybody an ice cream and some drinks. After we
relaxed and enjoyed our snacks in the lovely sun, we got back to work. It
wasn’t long until we had finished the entire field. It was a small field
though, lucky for us! I really enjoyed this experience. It was very exciting.
Whilst I have been in Korea I have always seen people working in the fields
and wondered what it would be like. I only participated in farming for a very
short time but I really liked it. I thought I wouldn’t like it because of the
insects but I didn’t come across any at all! I would like to thank Richard,
Suzi and Bae Jeong Man for this opportunity. 감사합니다!
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