These three days I stayed at Foppiano winery and worked there. The work itself was pretty easy, picked the oranges from trees, cracked waltnuts and sanded the wood smooth. Helaine drove me to Healdsburg downtown everyday to meet her friends and everytime she let her friends persuade me to not go north, because it is becoming cold, and every one of her friends said to me "do not go to north!" Helaine and I became good friend's even with 40 years difference, two generations and from two totally different social system countries.
At Halloween Louis and Helaine brought me to their Italian American friend's house and had dinner. this is my first time with an Italian family, the dinner was so wonderful and delicious. They are totally American middle-class family: huge fridges, big house, nice decoration, but me, a poor Chinese cyclist. They are really friendly to me, they do not mind that I wear very dirty clothes. Today they also celebrated an Italian custom, long time ago, when their grandmother's generations were very poor and they had nothing to eat, what they could eat was just walnut, so today they had a walnut celebration, because it helped their grand's stay alive.
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