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We looked like gringoes SECTION A T1IEHEHALD Wednesday February Paget Cultural changes for Cathy blueeyes Herald suit Writer Her blue eyes were a dead giveaway for Kathy Tho 20year old Lime- house woman only had to open her eyes and every one knew she was a for eigner Taking part In a six month exchange program with Canada World Youth recently spent three months living and working in Colombia South America Most Colombians have brown eyes and brown hair You can go out by yourself Kathy said of women The men always hiss at you like snakes if you do And If you look that means you re Interested You have to look at the ground Cultural differences be tween men and women struck Kathy while she was away She found men were very macho In Colombia and their mas culine pride took some getting used to Differences between the social classes struck Kathy as well She found a big contrast between the rich and poor A poor person here la not the same as a poor person In Colombia Kathy said Here the poor have shoes In Co lombia they The Canadian middle class would be considered rich in Colombia THREE MONTHS Kathy was one of SO Ontario young people 17 to 20 years old lived and worked In a Third World country for three months then came back to work another three months In Ontario C World Youth What does this little boy want la her room and board during the program and a week in spending money The organization Is a nonprom one in its eleventh year of opera with countries participating Leaving Canada July Kathy flew to Bogota the capital of Colombia a city about the size of Toronto There her first day she was robbed walk down the reel with two other Canadians We looked like grin gos Americans Kathy explained I felt someone grabbing my arm and I thought What does this little boy wont Called gamines the street children had knives In their hands and went through the girls pockets The gamines are a In the city to stay alive Although a number of convent schools have been opened for them the gamines run away from them because They like the freedom of the streets said Juan IS TOOK PART Juan is a native of Colombia who took part In the program with Kathy staying with now hoping to get a basketball scholarship at an American university A business student going into his second year of university In Colombia Juan said he plays basketball for the Bogota team When I came here first shock was Yongo Street he said people are very serious quiet and the streets are very empty not busy like In Bogota Juan said most Cana know nothing about Colombia They ask him if there ore buildings If there are streets If there are movies and If there Is rock music in Colombia When he goes out alone he finds people not as friendly as back home People will help but it help me with the heart Juan said Everything Is very planned In the life of Canadians with little time left free be noted The climate Is part of your cultural develop ment Juan observed You have to organize you have to prepare for the seasons we have seasons In Colom We don have to worry about food for the next month It always growing ALWAYS LATE The different approach to time by Canadians became apparent to Juan when the elderly woman he was living with for three months in Barrie bought him a watch because he was always late In Colombia Kathy found herself adjusting to the relaxed approach to time When a gettogether was planned or she learned to show tip three or four hours later Living three months In a very poor town of people called Restrepo Kathy picked up the Colombian pace of life She learned to walk alow so the heat of the day bother her as much Temperatures wero regularly degre es Fahrenheit or 30 degrees centigrade she In she lived on a milk farm owned by a rich family She would getUpaH 30am to milk cows every day a chore shed never done before Kathy also got to hovel manure and feed the pigs AFTER DEATH When the woman of the family got sick a witch doctor was called to the home fa he spiritual healing powers of San Gregorfo and had a doll of the Venezuelan doctor became a saint after bis death a Colombian youth on he exchange Family program with Kathy who houae the was billeted in the same doctor came were visiting Home would tell Kathy it woman want explained was time to leave the voung continued on pane All FASHION TREND HAIR SHOPPE FOR MEN AND WOMEN OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY UNTIL FEBRUARY 19th Re Price 35 INCLUDES CUT AND STYLE LOCATIONS 31 A MAIN ST S 50 GUELPH ST GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN NEXT TO CANADA TRUST 8775845 8776822 APPOINTMENT NOT ALWAYS NEEDED CHURCH DIRECTORY THE OLD GLEN MILL IS A for rice cakes was acquired by Georgetown while she was away In Colombia for three months this past fail She would buy the treat from a little boy who would regularly her while she was living In the very poor village of above IPbotos by Kathy Aggls Special programme on Third World development By JANET DUVAL Herald Special This week In local supermarkets you can buy apples grown local ly for about cents a pound and you can buy bananas grown 3 miles away in Central America for cents a pound This week many Canadians publicly cri l lei ted federal govern ment policies on the economy defence and tax laws while several people In Central America were arrested or shot for voicing similar criticisms This week downs of clubs night school classes and religious congregations In Georgetown met freely while in parts of Guate mala and El Salvador such gatherings could have brought instant action by the military Why These concerns will be among those dis cussed at a special pro gramme this Sunday evening from at St George a Anglican Church Georgetown new Ten Days for World Development group representing six local churches will sponsor a presentation on Central America as part of its aim to Increase local awaren ess of conditions in Third World or developing countries Sister Anastaala of Milton a Sister or St Joseph formerly with the Catholic Mission In Guatemala will speak and present the half hour film Seeds of Liberty She will be accompanied by a newspaper edit or from El Salvador who is now on the death list there and In exile Conditions there are unbelievable says Sister Anastasln Its so far removed from our experience In Canada to live daily with fear soldiers all about family members disappeared And people here don t know much of the history I was there In 1068 when OPEN FOR BUSINESS LOOK THESE