Seraina, July 24th to Aug 1, 2007

June 24th to August 15, 2007

Seraina, from Switzerland was our youngest and first Wwoofer to get serious homesickness. Seraina, had already spent 2 wks wwoofing in Saskatchewan where she worked very long days with a lot of mosquitos. Our place wasn’t what she had expected and she soon became homesick. Seraina worked in the garden and like every wwoofer and ourselves had a chance to muck out the barn and clean up the shop. While Seraina was here we had some friends staying at the lodge. They had daughters close to Seraina’s age, so Seraina was able to take time with them. One day they visited Radium Hot Springs with them. Another day we took the Gondola up to Eagle’s Eye at Kicking Horse Mtn Resort for Sunday brunch. The photo of her is on the 2nd day she was here. We attempted to go hiking on Redburn, but because the road was washed out we took Seraina to Thompson Falls for a short hike. Seraina caught a ride with our friends to Calgary so she could catch an earlier flight, because she missed home. I was glad that she figured out why she wasn’t feeling well. When she wrote in the Wwoofer book she asked if there was a new Wwoofer rule, because I had told her that with each new wwoofer there seemed to be something new we needed to add to our list of information for wwoofers. The answer is yes. Here it is “Please do not apply mosquito repellent inside the house of shop. It is poisonous and should not be applied in confined areas.” We hope the next time Seraina visit Canada that she will have a better ending to her visit.