Visitor on January 26 - James Venema

We had a visitor on January 26. His name is James Venema, he is a Canadian. He grew up in a small town, he moved 3 times because of his father's work. He lived in a city called Abbotsford which is near the US border. There are many fruit and berry farms in Abbotsford. When he was in grade 6, he started a part time job. On 2 months vacation, he was picking berries 6 days a week! When he was in junior high school, he participated in camping, or many other outdoor activities.
He was a student at University of Edmonton, where there were 30,000 students. He majored in clinical psychology. He was living alone. It was 1200 kms away from his parents. His parents gave him no money, so he used school loans. During vacations, he worked at a day-care center, a pig farm which was not enjoyable, a cow farm which was the hardest work for him and tree planting.
Canada has big scale farms, for instance, we can see mountains 100km away. Compared with Canada, Japan is very crowded. He likes to live in many different countries, and is especially interested in Asian countries. He came to Japan because of his opportunity to work for a company he saw advertised. He has 3 children, their birthdays run 3 days in a line! It's amazing!!
He has a positive feeling about using computers, because he lives away from his family. He often uses E-mail, so he thinks it is convenient. He uses internet to watch hockey games. He said he couldn't live without computers.