As you may know, early this year I decided to live an experience and worked at L'Étivaz, then Le Gros Jable, as a farmer (farmer-helper). My work was focused on the three months we spent at l'Alpage (a chalet in the mountain, at 1824m above the sea) where cheese is made.
One of my goals going there was: to let go. I let everything aside: work, flat, computer, loves and worries. None of these define who you are.
My work usually doesn't require any particular rythm. I can start when I'm ready, stop when I'm bored (or it's finished), eat whenever I'm hungry. Dealing with cows that have to be milked twice a day, milk, cheese fabrication, weather and whatever occurs was a real shift. It's also a daily routine where 80% of what you do has to be done that day at a particular time. This repeatition was far from being boring, surprisingly. You start to master some operations, getting better at them, getting faster, parallelizing what can be. At the beginning everything was very intense in how much attention was required and as the time goes none of them remained as something hard to do. Even cleaning the shit out of where the 43 cows were resting during the day was something that became easy.
What about now? I don't know yet, I'll get back on tracks and catch up with projects I was involved in and try to write about stuff I'm doing to gain visibility. Ain't it right?
As a conclusion, this was a huge experience like many others I did in the past. Surprisingly not the one that created the biggest shock of all. I start learning to go through changes it seems.
