#settled life

[motheyesofnight]

(from "on the settled life") sitting against a little light in the dark struck across a flash of strange feeling with a sinking heart, I turned my face and there, behind the empty space, remained only the familiar scenery if a stranger was standing there, the sin of unnaturalness would run rampant through the body weakness, ignorance, cowardly hope, cowardly belief, unlike all of those that stays in only slight desires, the sin of unnaturalness would run rampant

[wanderingmeg-blog]

It’s been a while

What have I done?

1. Gotten nasty comments on my WWOOF profile from The Winery.

2. Flew from Victoria to Halifax!

3. Stayed on an alpaca farm in NS for 3 weeks, until the host, who was hitting on me for 2 weeks straight and seemed to want me to join their polyamorist commune, abruptly stopped when it became clear I wasn’t interested and then asked me to leave one morning. 

4. I decided to not take their offer of 3 more awkward days of board/meals and instead used my lunch break to pack and book it out of there. $70 later between cab and bus, I’m in Moncton and planning my next move.

5. My next move involves never WWOOFing again. Done with sexual harassment, done with hosts who hate me, done with working the equivalent of $3.08 an hour. I’d volunteer for novel experiences like sailing, I’d volunteer at a hostel. I’m sure there are great farms and I seem to have hit an unlucky streak, but I find myself wishing I could delete my profile and I don’t want to gamble on that. 

Overall, some good life lessons, but I am saddened it didn’t work out better. I’m making plans to settle down for a bit, and get some work that pays, before I go off on further travels. I definitely think I could sustain the habit of travelling part of the year, and working the other, rather than long-term--it’s more expensive than expected and I need a break now and again. 

[mrjkquotes]

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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