45 - Wednesday, August 28, 1985 - North Shore News

AT NINETEEN, Cristin Fraser’s dream is to pick
coffee-beans in Costa Rica.

She also hopes to live with
native Costa Rican Indians
and subsist on cornmeal and
beans...all in the, cause of
greater international cultural
understanding, of course.

A graduate from Hand-
sworth Secondary, Fraser is
one of 21 Canadian youths
chosen to participate in the
federally sponsored Canada
World Youth program. The
program matches 21 Cana-
dians with 21 youths from a
Third World country. The
group spends four months in
Canada and another four
months in the host country.

“We live with host fami-
lies for the entire period,’’
says Fraser. ‘‘We're ex-
pected to work for them or
for a group.’’ No pay is in-
volved but all of the partici-
pants’ expenses are provided
for.

Fraser wasn't sure what
job she would he doing but
knew it would involve social
work like working at a
seniors’ home or agricultural
work,

The first part of the ex-
change takes her to the
Eastern townships of Quebec
where she will meet her
Costa Rican counterparts.
Aside from volunteer work,
the group will take seminars

about international
understanding as well as
Spanish and culture classes
to prepare them for the
Costa Rican leg of the ex-
change.

For English Canadians the
exchange is a cultural
double-whammy. Not only
do they have to adapt to the
Quebecois life-style but as
soon .as they settle into the
Eastern townships they will
be off to Costa Rica,

Fraser is confident she will
succeed with the cultural
crash course. Already
multi-lingual, she spent a
year at age fifteen in another
exchange program in In-
donesia.

Asked whether she. en-
joyed the hardships of Third
World living Fraser replied
that the reason she goes on
the exchanges is to become
‘Saware of what's going on
in the world.”

Leaving for Quebec on
September 2, Fraser is ex-
cited yet unconcerned about
what cultural surprises might
await her. Knowing from her
experience in Indonesia,
““the greatest culture shock is
coming home.”

NEWS photo lan Smith

OFF SHE ‘poes--with a B. C. flag courtesy of the provincial
government ‘and a new camera to record her adventures.

' North Shore. resident, Cristin Fraser, is going on.a Canada
World Youth exchange program to Quebec and Costa Rica. —
The. federally. sponsored program brings youug Canadian
_ adults together with their Third World counterparts to attain

better slobal understanding.

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