Modern Slavery.

I think you all know we both are not afraid to make our hands dirty and work ten hours a day. In the Southern part of Vancouver you see a lot of Blueberry fields and guess what, it's picking time! We contacted a guy and we could start yesterday at 8 am...for every pound we picked we would get 44 dollarcents. No green, no red, only darkblue...please! That's basically how our day started...

It was burning hot on the fields: 28 degrees and practically no breeze! We were mostly surrounded by Indian families: shouting, singing, laughing and...picking! We started off smiling and had a lot of fun. At the end of the day (10 hours later), we were tired and dirty and we realised how insane this job was. If you don't pick fast, NO MONEY, welcome in today's modern slavery! We are very lucky, fortunate and spoiled that we can choose to do something else, that we can travel the world knowing that our future will be bright. It's crazy to realise that a lot of people have to do jobs like this to survive, even in Canada, people like us, children even...something to think about!

We're both good workers and we don't give up easily...well we only picked 157 pounds with the two of us (that's basically five 12 liter buckets! We've been told that experienced pickers can pick up to 300 pounds each which is very hard to believe. One dollar is zero point seventytwo eurocents, so I think you have enough numbers now to figure out how much money we made on saturday 22nd of August 2011.

We live, we learn...we still have fun!

T H Th.