July 28, 2015
Today was Migrant Immersion Day. Which basically means we had a short glimpse on what a migrant's everyday life would be like. We started the day by waking up at 5:15 in the morning. After that we went to work at the fields to see what sorts of work the migrants did. Half of us went to pick blueberries and the other half had to harvest garlic. With garlic it took nimble fingers to peel the outer skin to make the garlic look white, fresh, and delicious just like you see in the market. Then for the half that had to pick blueberries we had to personally look through each batch to check that there were no bad berries. Then we had to put them into small boxes like the ones you see in stores. And then they were ready to go. All the produce we collected gave us money for the food that we were going to have for dinner. Most of the groups had about 3-7 dollars. It might not seem that little, but we were barely able to afford enough food to feed each of our families. Next time you see all the food in the grocery store, try thinking about how much effort and how many people it took to get that food there.
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