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Londesborough family hosts exchange student
being away from home.”
Trevethen misses the general
gossip from back home and
“knowing what’s going on.”
“I wish I could have pocket-size
versions of my friends and family,”
she said.
Trevethen has seen a lot of Ontario
during her stay with the MacGregors
and more day trips are planned.
She’s picnicked in Stratford,
shopped in London, had her picture
taken with “a random bloke” in
Niagara Falls, visited the CN Tower,
walked in the parade in Kincardine,
and hiked on the Bruce Trail.
Trevethen is the 16th student the
MacGregors have invited into their
family and home but their first from
England.
They began hosting in 1991
because they “thought it would be
neat for the kids to learn about
countries and not have to travel
there.”
Even though the youth come from
countries with differing opinions and
ways of life, Kittie is quick to say
that politics don’t come in the way of
friendship.
“Nothing political comes between
these kids, they’re all human and
when it comes down to it, they all
want the same thing.”
Trevethen agrees v. ith Kittie but
says there is “an overall dislike for
Blair and Bush.”
Kittie says they don’t plan many
activities before the person arrives
because, “until you meet them face
to face you don’t know what they’re
like and what they like.”
The internet has been a
tremendous advantage to all
participants in the youth exchange.
They have already traded e-mail
addresses and are planning to get
together after they go back home to
Europe.
It was especially helpful for Liz,
the MacGregors’ daughter, to
communicate with Grace beforehand
so she had an idea of what she
enjoys doing.
“It was nice when she got here
because I already knew what she
likes to do and doesn’t like to do.”
Trevethen has found it easy to get
along not only with Liz but with
Liz’s friends as well. Trevethen even
helped them with the CHSS
yearbook by sorting and organizing
surveys.
“You just bring them into your
home and treat them like family,”
explained Kittie.
When asked whether or not they
would be taking Trevethen back to
the airport Kittie smiles.
“When they’ve been with you for
that long, you don’t want anybody
* else to take them back.”
Friends without borders
Liz MacGregor, left, and Grace Trevethan, right, became
quick friends with help from the Lion’s Club Youth Exchange.
Trevethan is staying with Kittie and Don MacGregor of the
Londesborough area as part of the exchange until Aug. 4.
(Sarah Mann photo)
By Sarah Mann
Citizen staff
Being a good citizen took 18-year
old Grace Trevethen a long way - all
the way from England to Canada.
Hailing from the southwestern city
of Truro, in the county of Cornwall,
Trevethen was nominated and won
the southwestern England good
citizen award.
After winning the award,
Trevethen was told she would be
taking part in an exchange and got
the choice of where she wanted to
go-
She chose Canada. “I have family
who live here and my grandparents
have come here and loved it.”
Arriving in Canada on June 24,
Trevethen stayed with family until
she went to stay with Don and Kittie
MacGregor, of the Londesborough
area, on July 2.
While it might not seem like a
stretch to come from England to
Canada, there are differences in the
two countries.
“Here everything is on a larger
scale, like farms,” Trevethen said.
“The roads here are straight, very
straight, and the weather is a lot
warmer than at home.”
“It’s even warm here when it’s
raining,” she says laughing.
Also, self-rising flour isn’t used,
peanut butter and jam is not a
popular sandwich filler and, “our
[England’s] cereal is actually good
for you. . . it’s not lumps of sugar.”
While there are differences, there
are similarities as well.
' “Back home we have the same
sense of community spirit, maybe
even more so here, but there is the
same sense of community.”
What Trevethen likes the most
about this exchange is, “being with
different people and being in a
different place and seeing how
people do things.”
She explains that it’s that kind of
curiosity that prompted her to attend
university in London for
anthropology and sociology.
This trip, she says, will help her
prepare for going to school in
London this September.
“Because I’m going to school in
London, this will help me get used to
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