WWOOFing

>>1132599
I wouldn't recommend it at all -- if I want to work as a farm hand, I'd want to get paid.

To each his own though, of course, enjoy your labor.

>>1132618
but they feed you and give you a place to stay

Why not try it? Whats the worst that could happen, just do it for a week or so.

>>1132621
>but they feed you and give you a place to stay
so did the slave owners.
I would be careful. I found this wwoofing thing appealing, THEN i see stories of extortion. That you must pay them RENT, and work to pay off a portion of the rent, basically making you into their nigger. Just have a backup plan in case they are trying to make you into a slave forever or some shit.

>>1133261
>implying slavery without beatings is actually that bad

>>1133261
>basically making you into their nigger
thanks for the kek, I just love imagining some 3rd world farmer discovering he can just get free labor from dopey westerners

>The two other WWOOFers were a French 23 year old guy, and a 28 year old French girl who didn’t know each other prior to arriving the day before I did. They were nice enough and I spent most of the two days with them. Unfortunately, they confirmed every one of my worst prejudices about WWOOFers by constantly blathering idiotic anti-wealth, anti-American, noble savage worshipping nonsense which it was my duty to challenge. If they weren’t constantly smoking pot, they probably would have gotten quite angry with me.

>What little work I did was boring and tedious. The first day the work was actually kind of fun but it lasted a total of 30 minutes. First I dug some ditches to create a flood plain for future corn crops and I admit it was quite satisfying to see a field fill with water because of my work. A few hours later I stacked some eggs in a carton. That was it for the day. The following day I literally shoveled goat shit and carried it in sacks out onto the same field for about two hours. That was about as fun as it sounds.

>I’ve always been under the impression that poor farmers are hardworking people, but now I have to call that belief into question. Balram seemed to work for an hour or two after sunrise, then eat lunch at ten and declare it to be “too hot” to work again until 4 PM, even when it was only about 70 degrees out. He spent most of the day lounging in the shade, talking to neighbors, and eating food prepared by his wife. Granted, I wasn’t at the farm for long and Balram seemed relatively well off (likely due to charging WWOOFers $5 per day for the last eight years), but still, this was not the desperate farming I expected. Maybe because farming occurs all year round in Nepal, the work is more gradual and spread out compared to the seasonality in Europe that I typically picture.

>>1133419
Seems like he had a good time