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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-08-03, Page 17x+' Roman youth says pizza._not the same BY JOANNE WALTERS When in Rome, do as the Romans do! This was the reverse case for Christina Puccette, 18, of Rome, Italy when she recently visited this area through the Lions International Youth Exchange program. Christina arrived at Toronto airport on Sunday, July 16 for her first visit to Canada and stayed dor her first four days with Mr. and Mrs. John Siertsema of Bayfield while her host family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gosse and twa.sons, were on holidays. When they returned, she moved in with them at 170 Blake Street in Goderich for the remainder of her stay in Canad-a. Mr. Losse, who works in Bayfield, is a member of the Bayfield Lions Club which is hosting this particular exchange. Two young people from Bayfield will be spending three weeks in Texas from August 12 to September 3 as part of the exchange program. They will be sponsored and funded 100 per cent by the Lions and Leos. Christina is tanned and tall with blonde hair, brown eyes and a quick smile. Her heeled shoes make her even taller -- about six feet-- and she said they`are low heels by Roman standards. Not everyone in Rome is tall though, she said, just as not everyone has dark hair and x,eyes,, True in southern Itlay, the natives mostly have black hair and black eyes but in northern Italy, they are blue eyed andbf i & Ordinarily, Christina was to have stayed -here for one month but she had Io" fly li itiee-s'utidenly-last Sunday evening to be with a friend who- was having heart surgery. However, she was here long enough to draw some interesting comparisons between her city and this area. PIZZA NOT THE SAME For instance, while Canadian pizza is good, it is quite unlike the pizza Christina knows in Rome where it 'is one of the. national foods along with spaghetti. In Rome, the pizza crust is thinner and it is topped only with tom ata- - sauce- ami--moz zarella cheese. "We don't put so many things on it," she ex- plained slowly with a slight accent. Christina noticed many other differences ' bet- ween Canadian and Italian food as well as in eating habits. In Rome, she says,, breakfast is eaten very early in the morning and usually consistsonly of coffee and toast, not bacon and eggs like here. A big lunch including pasta, meat, vegetables and fruit is eaten around 1:30 or 2 p.m. and then a big dinner is eaten around 9 or 9:30 p.m. • Christina is used to drinking expresso coffee and found Canadian coffee to weak to her liking. She also couldn't get over' some of the "funny 'colors" of our food. "Here you drink a lot of powdered things which make strong colors," she commented while, ex- plaining that most juices in Italy are made only from fresh fruit. "And your butter is yellow. Ours is --white," she continued, In Canada, Christina ate Kentucky Fried .Chicken for the first time. and she also had her first taste of donuts whichshe really liked. She noticed that there were a lot of self -serve or fast food chains here which she felt were a lot easier for the customer. In Rome, one would never find this type of thing, she said, only restaurants where you must be seated and have a waiter take your order., There is no age limit for drinking liquor or wine in Italy. A two year-old could walk into a store and buy wine if he wanted to said Christina. Wine, along._ with textiles and automobiles, is one of Italy's main exports. Food is more expensive in Rome because much of it is imported, especially meat. And fish . is a real luxury there. To go to a restaurant and order salmon as one does here, would .',,- really be something, said Christina. DRIVING IS DANGEROUS - Food is not. the only thing that is expensive in Rome. Gas is almost six dollars a gallon. This, plus the fact, that the streets in Rome are very narrow, ' means that nobody has a big car. Christina herself has a motorcycle and a Citron car which she shares with her older brother. And it's true, she said, driving in Rome is dangerous. The drivers go very fast and nobody obeys traffic signs or stoplights.• Pedestrians just walk out in front of cars to get across the road. Christina herself • has had a few "accidents" but nothing too serious, she said. It's `not true, as some people would believe, that the boys in Rome go around pinching the girls, laughed Christina. The boys in Rome are the same as they are in Canada except that they wear their hair much .shorter. But in Rome, one wouldn't, j'ind too many boys., who help their Christina Puccette, 18, of Rome, Italy just returned to her home after. spending a week in this area through the Lions International youth Exchange. Christina's host=family were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gosse and two sons of Goderich. Mr. Gosse is a member of the Bayfield. Lions Club which sponsored this particular exchange. (Photo by Joanne Walters) COLBORNE TOWNSHIP CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE Sunday, August 6, 1978 2 P.M. Speaker: Rev. R.J. Crocker - Minister ST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH GODERICH I Musk by: McMillan Family Douglas McNeII Wilmer Hardy Reeve Clerk "Farm Fres FRUITS VEGETABL Available Now At ii�ssaIine Orchards Located 21/2 Milos from no. 3 Hwy. on Drive -In Road Just south of Godorlich Ph: 524-7772 " y, mothers around the house. In families with money, one doesn't even find the woman of the house doing housework or outside work. TWO HOMES From all indications, Christina's family is a rich one . by Canadian standards. Her father is a lawyer in Rome and she lives on the first floor of an apartment building (Via Ronciglione) there with her parents, a 19 - year -old brother, a 15 - year -old brother, a 12- year-oldsister and three dogs. In Rome there aren't many separate houses, only large buildings with apart- ments. The Puccette's apartment is not really what Canadians . would consider an apartment. It is comparable in area to a medium sized house in Canada and also has garden. It is locat:, about 60 miles from thy'" mountains and 18 miles from the Mediterranean. Christina's family also has a house in the country with a swimming pool and tennis courts. She likes the country home but finds that she can't stay there for more than a month before she misses the city. She was born in the city and en- joys its fast pace and being close to its many cinemas, shops and restaurants. She found it very quiet and slow paced in the Goderich area, compared to the bustling Rome with its crowded population of more than two million. "It o is very different from Rome. Here the ' towns are very Large (space -wise) and the roads wide. It is very flat here too. How do you ski?" In Rome, says Christina, you don't see much green unless you go into the country. Also, in Italy the green is not the same color as it is in Canada. It is more like yellow or brown. But, there is lots to see in Rome because it is a very ancient city. Christina saw a 150 -year-old home in Goderich but by Roman standards, she did not consider it very old. Also in Rome, there are no large shopping malls, only lots of small specialty shops. She likes shopping in many dif- ferent little shops better than staying inside one big building housing many shops. In general, she said, "I like very much my town." WELL -TRAVELLED However, Christina said she was not the least bit homesick. In fact, she laughed at the thought. The people. in Canada are kind and friendly and at 18, she is an experienced traveller having visited Switzerland, Austria, France, Norway, - Ger- many, Spain and England. "I haven't seen much of Italy," she admits. "I like travelling but not by car," she laughs. Christina • studied English in school for eight years and French f r five. 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No one should try to apply or interpret thelaw without the aid and" advice of a trained expert who knows the facts, since the facts of each case may change the application, of the law SCHUTZ MOTOR SALES Your Full line • CHRYSLER • PLYMOUTH • DODGE holiday 524-8311 414 HURON RD. GODERICH NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Vaedatek? vegmem • 3 HR. SERVICE • ALTERATIONS 5'24-6231 38 WEST ST. Last December we ordered a dresser, desk and bookcase from a catalogue. When the items arrived, the dresser was damaged. The replacement they sent was also damaged. So was the replacement for the replacement. The store assured me the next dresser would be inspected before it was shipped. The bill stated ithad been, but it arrived looking as though' it had been dropped. The right corner was splintered and -the drawers couldn.'t -be,-shut_.:Al.so, this dresser is un,_ finished, and we had ordered a painted one. The service charges are mounting while we still haven't received what we ordered. Tfie fifth-tr-y•-succeeded•:-Our reader -now-- has the dresser she wanted and is quite pleased with. it. As for the service charges they've been dropped. Call BILL MELICK at your COLLISION•REPAIR CENTRE - SOUTH END BODY et:S4441W1 524-9181 HAYFIELD RD. GODERICH When we moved into our new home last •spring we naturally expected to be living trouble freefor a considerable length of " time, but not so, it's been one .complaint after another! The latest is with our toilet which keeps plugging up. The construction company have promised to send out a plumber butso.far it's been all talk and no action! The builder claims that all home buyers are asked to send in aTO Of'" unfinistect-or unsatisfactory items after a thorough in- spection of the house. This was NOT done by this party, but in spite of this, the builder is adamant that "they have bent over backwards trying to please this client, we have to draw the line somewhere, and w°e think that time has come!" After only two days our brand new car had to be towed back to the dealer with a front wheel at a 45 -degree angle. They said it needed a wheel alignment and this was looked after. All was well for three weeks, when, once again the wheel was at the same 45 -degree angle, so this time they replaced a badly bent tire rim. The final straw was in early June when a hole was blown in the engine. This happened on the 401 and I had it towed tO the dealer once more. He has replaced the engine but won't honour the towing charge. • Why should I be stuck with this when it was through no fault of mine? The dealership contacted the manufac- turer and they have agreed to pay for the tow.