Animal Lover in Canada

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This blog is written by Natsuko Kashiwagi(柏木 夏津子).

After I said good bye to my host parents, I met with all classmates who were staying Canada. We stayed at Hotel in Vancouver. We talked a lot and didn't sleep.
On July 3rd, I left Canada which I spent 322days. I can declare my Canadian life was great. I got great host parents, had so much fun, had a lot of new experiences, met with funny and kind people and spent time with many animals. I'm sure that this experience has good effects for my future. I have to say thank you for all people who was concerned with my life in Canada including you who visited my blog.
Thank you so much!

p.s.
It's my last time to renew my blog. I probably will make another blog. If you are interested, please visit my new blog. Please wait for me to make my new blog. Thanks.

On July 2nd, I left Alberta. My host parents and a host pet came to the airport to say goodbye. I couldn't imagine I have to leave there on the day. I felt like I'm going on a trip to Japan and I can come back soon. I coudn't realize that I was leaving. Canada is my moral home now. I really love Canada and my Canadian parents. I was lucky that I could have parents like them. I love all their animals too. When I left home on June 31st, I hugged all pets even horses. I hugged their faces and kissed them. I miss them so much. We took a last picture together, exchanged our last presents and we hugged each other. I couldn't bear crying but I said I'll come back as soon as possible to meet them. It was the hardest day in my Canadian life.
This is the present I gave to the parents. She is one of their pet, Missy.

On July 1st, I went to Calgary with my host parents. It was our last trip. I stayed at my host grandmother's house. She was living in Calgary. My host parents asked me where do I wanna go for the last trip and I recommended to go zoo. I thought it's the best way to finish my Canadian life as an animal lover. I love going zoo.

My host dad took many pictures for me because it was the last chance to take pictures of us.

Giraffe is my favorite big animal. There were two of them and they were so cute


They are foxes. It was so sweet to see that they were sleeping together.

They are kings of animals, lion. They were fooling together.

It's a king of birds. It was nice to watch this kind of birds closely.

Many peacocks were walking around freely. I thought they escaped from their cage but it was normal for them.

There were also flower gardens in the zoo. I like nice vivid color of this flower.

I didn't take this picture in the zoo. This rabbit is wild. I found the rabbit in front of my host grandmother's house. It was so cute. I love to see animals in wild. It was the best day as a last day for me, animal lover!

I'm back to Japan. I will renew my blog when I have a time.
Thank you for visiting

Today gonna be a last day to renew my blog in Canada. My host parents planned a last trip for me. I'm gonna go to Calgary Zoo It's nice trip for me, "Animal Lover" I can see some Canadian animals such as mooses and grizzly bears. I'm gonna leave this my third hometown which I stayed 10 month tomorrow. I'm so excited to go the trip but I'm so sad that I have to leave here so soon.
I'm excited to go back Japan becuse I can meet my parents and friends. I think I'm gonna enjoy life in Japan but I will start missing my friends, my greatest host parents and their cute pets. My host parents say they gonna miss me so much. I love them so much and they also love me. I think canadian people don't be shy to talk how much do the love somebody. My host dad always says "I'm gonna miss you.", "You are my girl." or "You are the best host student I've ever had." That's so sweet. When my host mom was talking about me with her friends a week ago, she talked about me as a daughter. It was so sweet I always think I'm a lucky girl that I got host parnets like them. My first host family was nice people but they were too busy to talk with me and I could count how many sentences did I talk in that day. It was quite sad.
I should talk about my English skill. I learned language is difficult. I was thinking I would be able to speak English more than I can now when I was in Japan. Perhaps, I rememberd a lot of wards and slungs that we use in daily life. I should have studied English more but I also have to enjoy my Canadian life such as conversations and visiting somewhere. It was pretty hard to find a time to study.
I thought I would learn something from living without my parents. I guess I'm storong at staying without my parents. I didn't get homesick and I didn't miss them. Of course I love my parents and I'm lookin forward to see them after I went back to Japan, but I don't feel sad as long as they are alive and I know I can meet with them again. I don't think my personality is changed from that. It's because of my nice host parents, I suppose.
I learned about myself a lot in Canada. I can explane who I am much better than before. When I leaned about myself, I wasn't always happy. I realized about my bad things and good things. Perhaps, I can't fix my bad personality easily. That sometimes confused my emotion. I don't brame myself because it's the way I am and I don't think I can change it. I wanna look at my good things and improve them.
I realized one more thing. I love animals! I knew I love animal but I love them much more than before, especilly to talk with them, feel them and taking pictures of them. I don't think I can live without any pets anymore. I'm an only child. I'm used to stay at home alone and I liked that time because I could do anything I want at that time. While I'm in Canada, there was always somebody including pets. I think it's gonna be hard to spend the time without pets. I will ask my parents to get a pet. That's first thing I'm gonna do when I went back to Japan

I had so*100 much fun in Canada. I learned thing a lot physicaly and emotionaly. I especially like the moments which I spent with pets and wild animals. I could feel nature whenever I wanted to. I'm pretty sure that I won't live in Japan in the future. I can't breath in Japan. It's too city for me. If I lived in Japan, I wanna live in Hokkaidou or somewhere like Alberta. Canada is my favorite country I've ever been. I wanna come back to Canada with my parents and my bestfriend. My host parents said they let us stay for free anytime.

Thank you for spending wonderful moments with me everyone! I can't explane how much you meant to me.

They are my family. Only my host parents are living with me. My host parents have three kids and four grand children. They are all nice people. Kids are so hyper!

They are presents from my family. I have some more. I got buffalo horns from my host parents' frind. It was so cool.

Guess what it is. It's a goat. My coordinator took me to see baby goats. There were babies of cats, goats and chickens.

I fed milk to "kids", baby goats which lost their mom. They drunk it so fast. Milk was all over a kid's face. They were so cute and friendly.

There were white goats which look like a goat from "Heidi of Alps" I think they were twins because they were always together.
She was like a model. She posed very nicely when I took this picture.

He was the oldest goat. He had nice beards. There was something dignified about him.

There were many kittens too. They were so tiny and cute

I recently went horse riding twice. I went with Rick,my host parents' friend on 22th and I went with my host dad on 28th. The last one I went with my host dad was so cool and I enjoyed a lot. I went horse riding for 5 hours! Isn't it great? I have been a good rider. I don't be flurry anymore when horses started run suddenly. I can hold my back straight and control Danny anytime. I hold camera and take pictures when horse is doing gallopp(the fastest way to run and the way race horses run.). My host dad recognizes me as a good rider. I was running on a huge field which had deep grass. It reached top of Danny's back. and deers were running across the field. I really felt like i'm cowgirl and It was a beautiful moment. I went to deep depressions and I ran down and up anytimes. When horses climb up deep hills, they shake their body like rodeo. When horses go down deep hills, my back almost parallels horses' back. That was the coolest thing! I'm pretty sure that I would fallen if I did same thing last year. I smelled cookies at a camp ground so I went there to have some cookies. My friends were there so I talked with them for while. Some guys wanted to ride horses so we switched horses. They looked they were having fun. They looked cool with horses I know Danny's characteristic well. He tripps over many times. He doesn't look his feet. He is a little bit timid. Danny and MoonStar mouth a piece of grass in their mouth all the time during horse riding like people hold toothpicks without any reason. Horses are so cute and sensitive. When a deer suddenly came out from bush, Danny and MoonStar jumped aside. They are scared of cows too. When I was riding a horse, eagle was frying in the sky as drawing circles and chattering above my head. It was so cool. I'm gonna miss horse back riding with Danny...I love him so much

We poured cement last week at the kennel. When it was still soft, I wrote my signature with a nail. My host mom let me do it. My host parents gonna see it everyday so they can't forget me forever! That was so cool doing this

When I was helping building the kinnel, Danny was fixedly looking inside of kennel for a long time. Diablo was kissing(baugging?!) on Danny's back. It was cute scene