It’s the All Saint’s Day holiday week this week in French public schools — we get a week and a half off from teaching — and so Becky and I are on a working vacation in Corsica working on this pig and chestnut farm (last post on that page) in Lustina, Corsica (about one hour’s drive south of Bastia).
So far we’ve met Jean-Mathieu, the 3rd generation Corsican charcutier (he speaks the language, too), his friendly Colombian buddy Felipe (who’s lived here for seven years), and the four other WWOOFers that are here with us in this tiny 10-person village.
JP: A nurse from Brisbane, Australia who is effectively taking some time off from his work at home and is bouncing around France and then is headed on to Senegal for a couple of months to learn French and to volunteer at a clinic in my old stomping grounds of Saint-Louis.
Zach: He’s been here a month and sadly is leaving tomorrow to head back to meet up with his girlfriend in Bordeaux before flying back to the US on Friday. He’s from Columbus, Ohio, and is currently applying to med school. Used to work at Murky Coffee in Washington, DC.
Pierre and Laure: Don’t know much about these two just yet, other than the fact that they’re both from Brittany (Pierre speaks fluent Breton) and Pierre has done WWOOFing before in Ticino, Switzerland.
Pics coming tomorrow!
