Last year my dear friend Jenny took a year off school to work for the Americore program CityYear. Besides all the great things the program offers-- a year of service, a chance to give back to the community--the most important thing Jenny recieved was this incredibly hanous pair of Timberland pants. These khaki pants sit at your natural waist, well above the bellybutton, and do the most unflattering things to every part they cover.
Why is this important? At the beginning of this trip, Jenny bestowed me with The Pants. And today they were put to good use. Currently they are covered in cow manure, milk spills, corn silage, and a variety of unknown bits collected throughout the day.
Yesterday on the farm we harvested all the corn with these big tractors that could harvest six rows at a time! The man driving let me ride along, but spoke no english, and seeing as how french 101 did not have a unit on farm vocabulary, we simply sat in silence while watching the crop get pulverized in the teeth of the tractor.
The corn silage, along with the grass silage previously harvested will feed the cows all winter long when the pastures are too muddy for them to go outside and the grass stops growing.
In the evening I went out to bring in the cows and saw a new little black and white spot underneath a cow. This baby calf had just been born and was still damp. It was a pretty great way to end the day.
Today I walked the to the little village nearby and had a coffee at the cafe. No one spoke english so my broken french did not get me as far as it did in Paris. On the walk back I picked wild blackberries. It all seems very French.
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