. Agri-news. Agriculture. December 21, 1981 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A JAPANESE CHRISTMAS by Kevin Farran Dairy Farmer near Calgary. Kevin Farran and his friends at a New Year's Eve party in Japan. Celebrating Christmas in Japan, where the occasion is considered somewhat of a "foreign folly", could be a lonely experience, but I did not find it so. I was in Japan last Christmas as an exchange student under the Alberta-Hokkaido Agricultural Exchange Program, which is designed to enable young farmers from Alberta to spend a year on a Japanese farm and vice versa. I found that despite the f
. Agri-news. Agriculture. December 21, 1981 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A JAPANESE CHRISTMAS by Kevin Farran Dairy Farmer near Calgary. Kevin Farran and his friends at a New Year's Eve party in Japan. Celebrating Christmas in Japan, where the occasion is considered somewhat of a "foreign folly", could be a lonely experience, but I did not find it so. I was in Japan last Christmas as an exchange student under the Alberta-Hokkaido Agricultural Exchange Program, which is designed to enable young farmers from Alberta to spend a year on a Japanese farm and vice versa. I found that despite the fact that obtaining and sending off cards and gifts re- quires considerable perseverence in Japan, the task was very satisfying. I think that anybody who has battled with the postal officials and customs officers in a foreign country will appre- ciate what I mean when I say I had a real sense of accomplishment. I spent Christmas Eve alone with a bottle of wine watching television, and when I awoke on Christmas morning, I could have been dismayed at the starkness of the corner where there should have been a Christmas tree. I could also have missed the carols and tinsel - (cont'd) - A\ba\a >hone: (403) 427-2127 AGRICULTURE Communications Division. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Communications Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Print Media Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Publishing Branch. [Edmonton] : Communications Branch, Alberta Dept. of Agriculture
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