Austin, TX update 3

It's almost true, everything does seem to be bigger in Texas. Let's catch up on the past few days here in Austin.

My third day down here was awesome. Besides waking up after a voracious Friday night exploring the 6th street bars. (They call it Dirty 6th for a reason) My hosts down here are awesome. Besides being such cool people, they are also hosting two Austrians who are participating in the event down here from March 11th to the 20th called South By South West. It's a catchy title for most, but in reality, its a trendy electronic gadget party,littered with free booze and tons  music showing throwdowns that lasts for over a week. But after getting to know some more friends and people down here, and I'll say it was a great night, we got back at about 1am. Now, my hosts being the tough Texans they are get up 5 days a week at 5 am to go work a 12 hour shift at a farmers market. This includes the loading unloading, and complete set up by hand. I couldn't wait to wake up in 4 hours and work all day...

It actually turned out to be one of the best days down here. My host Blake and I worked all day and it was super interesting. The farmers market only lasted from 9 am (remember we started working at 530am to setup) until 1 pm. And the farm we were working for does about 4 farmers markets in and around Austin each day. Our market was in a mall parking lot caled Cedar Park, and we made almost $2,000 dollars by selling fresh produce to locals. It was astonishing. Not only did the stand make that much money, but we also traded other people selling goods such as bread and wine stands, in exchange for produce. After 1 pm we loaded the giant truck back up with left over produce and the tents and headed back to the farm. A few more hours of unloading food into the freezers and we were ready to rock and roll. The best part about it was that the owner of the farm gave me the oportunity to come back and work for him. That was nice, but the giant box of fresh produce and bread he gave me really hit the spot. Nothing like a hard days work if you ask me.

I'll blog about my night on Dirty 6th in a bit. The delivery guy just showed up with my chinese food!