I knew that the moment that I sent in my letter to the embassy stating I wanted to cancel my visa, I would hear back from a farm. Well...I have not sent out the letter yet, because I am waiting for farms! Anyway, I did hear back from someone...with a spot...open for me!! Don't get your hopes up, it is more comical than serious.
After I was rejected through no response or being let down kindly, I sent out a bunch of letters. They let the farms know that I was interested and gave some background about myself: I teach middle school and like children, blah blah blah. Anyway, this guy (perhaps a girl?) said that my letter seemed as though it reached them by mistake, as they do not have any children, but they know it would have been impossible for me to know that ahead of time.
In fact, this is no farm...this is a person with a "big garden." They make pottery and just want someone to weed and maintain their garden. Now this is something I can totally do, thus the reason I emailed them. However, they said that they can only take one person at a time, are 45 years old, live alone, and are to poor to feed me, unless I can fix their crumbling house.
Despite this not being what I am really looking for, it still seems perhaps doable as I have nothing right now. The one thing that is a bit much for me is that they want me to have some background in plants as they took a course about plants and do not want me to weed the wrong things and they will be inside working on pottery and they will not be able to stand over me. Now my mother is a "Master Gardener" and I know quite a bit about plants in NJ, the north east, and even the south east, but I don't know about France...
I know a couple of people that have been doing a Spanish immersion class and they stay with a host family in Guatemala or Costa Rica. I think that I shall look into this for French and France and perhaps that will buy me some more time to find a more suitable farm.
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