this week...

hey all! this is going to be a bit quick...
three pigs had babies this week! and several have gotten squashed by the giant mama pigs. the word in spanish for squashed is aplastar. haha. several chanchitos aplastados. tragic.
i´m pretty tired. and dirty. we work 7 days a week. and it´s all kind of the bitch work of farming. like if i had my own farm, i would take a minute to make lunch, clean the house, relax a bit. but being the help, we pull a lot of weeds and dig a lot of tiny canals to water plants. i think we might take a couple weeks in mendoza to relax. and cook our own food. i eat a lot lot lot of white bread here. foo seems to be doing a little better. she´s learning tons of spanish but i don´t think she feels like it yet. a couple kids from the US came to the farm for 4 days this week. it was good to have some more communication in english. also, the internet is unbelievably slow. tomorrow we´re making chinese pancakes for the family for dinner. it´s nice to be able to cook even if it´s only once every two weeks. also, luis, the owner of the farm, likes to talk about foo (in spanish, of course) and the other day he said she was like a ´tanque de agua´. they seem to think that being asian gives her special harmony and balance. for real. she´s as tranquila as the water in a water tank.