We started work on the cotton farm on 16th April 2010. We were living in a house (rented by the farmer for us - the farmer lives about 1 hour away from his farm so during the picking season prefers to have a base nearer the farm) and we lived and worked with a couple from Estionia who were really ncie. Initially there was lots of prepartion work to do - re-roping big tarpaulins ready to cover the finished cotton modules, maintainence on farm machinery, cleaning, pulling out old cotton plants, moving irrigation pipes out of the way etc. So we prepared for about a week and then started to pick the cotton. All the picking is done by big machine pickers, so our job was to sit on one of the 4 module builders, and
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