Yesterday morning the students of the fifth and sixth grade of our school went on an interesting outing to an oil-press in Lechonia.  
The drive was quite short but I noticed a vast expanse with oliveplantations.  
When we got there we were waiting for a man to show us round the oil-press; so I had the chance to observe the machinery.1  
At an early stage olives are washed. Then they are dried and made into a pulp. Then the skin and the stone of the olive are removed.  
The next piece of machinery is the separator which separates oil from the rest of the olive. Finally oil is poured into big containers and it is exported.  
Then we went to an olive plantation we walked along paths and small earth-roads. Workers were beating the olive down and they fell on big materials which were spread under the trees. A man was on a big branch and he was beating the olives I noticed that the olives which fell down were black and quite ripe.  
This outing was very interesting because I learnt how we get the oil.  
 

NICK TRAGARIS 
6th grade student