Tobacco Picking Near Motueka.

It was my first experience of hard labour, working in the green fields under the sun, on a long working holiday near Motueka. The kindly farm owner lent me a cottage across the road from the fields where we started early, finished late on my first experience of hard labour under the sun. I picked the larger green leaves at ground level first, moving along the rows and up the plants to smaller leaves on that working holiday just out of Motueka. There were tractors and trailers coming round regularly, takingleaves to the sheds where I sorted them out on my first experience of hard labour. I met other students and older seasonal workers too. We went to dances in town on late Saturday nights on that holiday job out of Motueka. This was a long time ago; it was positive. I did not know then the end-product was so utterly negative on my first experience of labouring under the sun, on that working holiday just out of Motueka. _ July,2012.