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LETTERS: CWY participants raise their coconuts to Scugog The following is a letter to the residents of Scugog Township from the eight Canadian partic- ipants in the Canada World Youth exchange who spent the summer in this area. The par- ticipants are now completing their exchange in Thailand. The letter was written by Christina and is dated Dec. 2, 1990. Dear friends, Looking out my bedroom win- dow I see massive coconut trees reaching far into the blue, sun- soaked sky. Below, chickens mill about and my host mother washes laundry by hand in large tin ba- sins. The village is quiet now as most people have gone to work in the fields surrounding the community. The work includes cutting rice, bamboo, picking beans, and herding cows. Five weeks into our three month stay in Thailand and everything moves along - smoothly. We were welcomed into Petchaboon province and our village Ban Plum on Nov. 18 by hundreds of villagers, beautiful Thai dancing and a supper with all of the host families at the community monastery. The Thai people have been wonderful in accepting us into their culture and community. (We can't walk 10 feet without being fed!) It is a particularly special event as it is the first time in many years that Ban Plum has welcomed foreigners to live in their village. Asin Port Perry, we have two days set aside each week for ed- ucational and community activ- ities. For the remaining five days we work with our families cutting and harvesting rice, thrashing rice, picking fruit, chillies, and vegetables, or whatever the family happens to be doing on a particular day. As a group we have taken part in many activities includ- ing a day care improvement project and AIDS awareness march in the provincial capital, a visit to a silkworm plant and a tamarind (the local fruit) farm. Yesterday we visited the pro- vincial military base and joined soldiers in a soccer game which unfortunately we lost 3-2 (...must have been that blazing sun!) Speaking of weather we have heard that winter wonderland has slowly descended upon Canada and want to let you know that we are all thinking of Port Perry and all the wonder- ful people who made us feel wel- come in the community. As we bravely bear the over 25 C temperatures, we raise our freshly picked coconuts to you and wish you a happy holi- day season and best wishes for the New Year. We look forward to returning to Port Perry in Vsbruary and sharing with you our recollections of this wonder- ful adventure. Cheers from Thailand, Christina, Jason, Jennifer, Patrick, Cedric, Lorraine, Stephane and Denise. . Canada World Youth Editorial Comment (from page 6) kles his beligerent bleatings with calls for a "Holy war," and references to God. Strange wo cold-blooded killer. rds coming from the mouth of a He must know he can't win this war militarily. Is he there- fore determined to turn the region into a sea of red, his own country a mountain of rubble? Apparently. Since the August 2 invastion of Kuwait, he has given the world not one tiny shred of evidence he wants anything else. Saddam can't win the war, and if he turns it into a blood- bath, he won't win the peace, either, when peace comes. Iraq will be shut out of the international community for years to come. Here in Canada, the protesters have been out in force since the war began, taking the opportunity to protest not just this war, but almost every other "cause" that has surfaced over the last couple of decades. How nice to see them out there burning the US flag, cutting the Canadian flag in shreds, chanting their slogans about "imperialism" the oil companies and so on. One won- ders where they were when Saddam invaded Iraq so brutally five months ago. 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