Working on a larger rug.
Jill and I were totally absorbed watching the women weave.
They were lightening fast and we couldn’t believe that they could do this, day after day, without suffering major pain or injury.
I’m guessing they did but the money they could make before they retired, around the age of 40, would hopefully be enough to support them and their family.
We didn’t ask them what their husbands do, and for all we know they work at the same co-op selling the rugs, but I’m guessing they don’t make a lot of money doing this and it is a tough life.
Even with the percent the co-op gives them, I’m sure they struggle.
It gives Jill and me even more reason to be thankful for what we have in our lives and how we are able to live them.
How many people get to move to China, on a whim, work 3 days a week, and then travel around the world living a rather wonderful life?
Not that many that I know although, as we travel more, we meet more and more people doing this and are inspired by them.
One of the people we’ve met is Nadine Hays. I starting reading her book, “Happier Than A Billionaire” while we were on vacation and loved it beyond belief.
Well, we haven’t actually met her in person, but we met her through her book, and then on Facebook, where we’ve become fast friends already!
It is a travelogue about a couple, in their 30s, that decide to chuck the jobs they hate and move to Costa Rica.
Jill has visited Costa Rica before and thought it would be a fun read but didn’t have time to read it, so I borrowed it from her.
I now want to visit Costa Rica as soon as ppossible Nadine’s book is hilarious, scary, and amazing. It is everything that can happen living an expatriate life and both the good and the bad. She leaves nothing out and she and her husband, Rob, do an amazing job of overcoming whatever is thrown in their path to make their dream life.
She’s now written two sequels and continues to live the dream.
I would suggest anyone, whether you want to actually live the expatriate life, or just read about it, buy her book and read it immediately.
Just click the Amazon link below and buy it. It is a deal at $2.99 for a kindle version!
Back to the women weaving, making their lives their dreams, and Turkey.
This is a short video showing the women moving as fast as humanely possible.
This video is longer but the guide explains exactly what is happening as it goes along.