BlG—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 15,1983
NEWARK, Del. - When Dick
and Barbara Klair, Hockessin, let
Sandra Hill operate their car in a
parking lot, the 20-year-old
promptly started driving on the
wrong side of the road. But the
momentary lapse was excusable,
considering Sandra is a visitor
from New Zealand, where cars are
always driven on the left, summer
vacations are in December, and
water swirls down the bathtub
drain counterclockwise instead of
clockwise.
Sandra arrived in Delaware on
August 10 and has been staying
with a succession of 4-H families
like the Klairs through the In
ternational Farm Youth Ex
change. She is here to explain the
ways of her country while learning
more about ours. Before coming to
Delaware she visited California
and Kansas.
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New Zealand visitor Sandra Hill tries out a vintage tractor
belonging to one of her Delaware 4-H host families, the Klairs
of Hockessin. Pictured with Sandra are, left to right, Martha,
Debbie, Dick and Barbara Klair
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New Zealand Visitor Has a Lot to Say About the USA
The practice of driving on the
left, Sandra says, owes to New
Zealand’s British heritage. The
differences in the seasons and in
the direction of the earth’s
gravitational pull are due to the
fact that New Zealand is south of
the Equator, part of the “land
down under.”
The cattle and sheep farm where
she lives with her parents in
northern New Zealand is about as
far below the Equator as Georgia
is above it. Average temperatures
are about the same, hovering
around 45 degrees F in winter, and
80 to 85 in summer. The Delaware
summer was uncomfortably hot
for Sandra, but she discovered a
great way to cool off ice cream.
New Zealand has it, but not in so
many flavors. Deciding between
blueberry cheesecake and rocky
road became one of Sandra’s
favorite summer pastimes.
She has also been comparing
notes with kids in the families with
whom she has been staying, fin
ding out the differences and
similarities between her own youth
organization, the New Zealand
Young Farmers, and 4-H.
Although the two organizations
are similar in their aims and
methods, one big difference is the
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age requirement. At 20, Sandra is
already too old to be a member of
4-H, which serves nine- to 19-year
olds. New Zealand Young Farmers
range in age from 14 to 30 But both
groups use competitions as in
centives for personal improvement
in fields such as cooking, sewing,
and stock judging.
Sandra is stalled in all these
fields, as her hosts have found. She
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prepared a New Zealand lamb
dinner for her first Delaware
hosts, the Pritchetts, Felton. And
at the Klair’s she’s getting a
chance to sew and work with sheep
and cattle.
Barbara Klair sometimes ap
preciates an extra hand in her
homebased custom slipcover and
drapery business. Daughter
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