Becka Goodwin
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I spent a week hosting Jennifer who was my exchangee and I was
going to be staying with her and her family when I was in Canada.
We went around the local attractions such as Hereford Cathedral
and Black & White House as well as the local Farm Shops and
Westons Cider where I had never been before. It was a great
experience!
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Going abroad is an expensive experience but
with the help of willing local businesses I was
helped a lot! Even my county YFC managed to
find some funding! Some of the businesses that
helped me are below!
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Kington Agricultural Show
Hereford Market Auctioneers
Sunderland's & Thompson‘s
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biggest step of all was getting on an
airplane for the first time on my own and by
doing it I’m not worried about doing it again!
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The Rinsdorf
family moved
from Germany
fifteen years ago
and had made a
living out of
being bee
farmers and had
over a thousand
hives so when I
stayed with them
it was peak
season so there
was plenty of
things to do
around the farm.
The family
were honey
farmers so I
got to help out
with the rather
complicated
system and
got to come
home with
some rather
nice goodies.
Jennifer (my exchangee) worked at a bible
camp as the manager of the riding stable so I
stayed there for two days and it was an
interesting experience considering I’m not too
happy with horses but came back rather liking
them. They also played this crazy game which
was a mixture of football, rugby and netball
and was played with four yoga balls! Mental
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Matt works at the
local grain elevator
(where they load grain
onto trains) so I didn’t
see a lot of him but
Carrie is a teacher so
she had plenty of time
on her hands to show
me around Manitoba
because she was on
her summer break too.
I spent a day in America and I was
surprised even though it was an
hour and a half away from where I
was staying, how different it was.
This also made me realise who
different the Canadian and
American accent is, their attitudes
as well.
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valleys, cattle are a rare sight in the
grain province of Manitoba. It even brought
me closer to home when I saw that they
were Hereford crosses.
Almost every town I saw in Manitoba
had a statue to represent their town.
The Turtle was for Boissevain and the
banana and bird was for Melita.
I was lucky enough to go to a wedding whilst I was there, it
was very different to the weddings that I have been to in the
UK. It was an outside wedding which was very relaxed, and we
then went back to the local hall and had typical Canadian food,
perogies, ham and bread rolls. The after wedding was similar
to ones here, they had a few friends and family and we all
spent the night dancing.
The Krinke family moved
out to Manitoba eleven
years ago from England
and I spent a relaxed
national holiday
weekend looking around
Brandon, their home city.
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The one place that I knew I wanted to see was
Riding Mountain. It had to be the most peaceful
place I had seen and we went for a walk around
Clear Lake and did the typical tourist thing of
looking in all the souvenir shops.
The Fenez family are small hobby farmers with a very large
vegetable garden which they use to deliver veg boxes to families in
Winnipeg which was only twenty minutes away. They also had
Aberdeen Angus cattle which I helped them out with because I had
a fair idea what I was doing. More than what I had with the
vegetables.
On the free days we went and
explored Winnipeg which has so
much history, including a hundred
year old cathedral which they
count as old which had been burnt
down almost to the ground and
one of only a couple rare white
buffalo.
Canadian food is very similar to Bristish food but there are a
few things that I couldn’t get my taste buds around. The first
being Poutine which you can see above which is French fries,
gravy and cheese curds. The second were Perogies which are
a boiled pastry thing stuffed with potato, onion and ham. Very
weird.
Thank You
So Much
For Taking
Time To
Watch.