THE INFORMER PAGE 7

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

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back at the May 25th Graduation

“How would you like to go to Australia for a year?” I asked
my wife in June of 1988.

“Great,” she replied.

So began the process of arranging a teaching exchange, with
Tony Hughes, lecturer in business at Tea Tree Gully College in
Adelaide, South Australia. After much correspondence and
numerous telephone calls back and forth, the arrangements were
made. Tony and family arrived in Vancouver on December 15,
1989, and my wife and I departed for Adelaide a few days later.
Tony would teach my classes at Cap and I would teach his at Tea
Tree Gully. We would live in each other’s house. We promised
faithfully to take good care of everything.

When I started to jot down my impressions of the exchange
my immediate reaction as a business lecturer was to produce a
cost/benefit analysis. However, on sober reflection it seemed

people might be more interested in some tips for potential
exchanges.

TIP 1

Take lots of money! If your exchange is outside North
America you will want to see as much as possible of the area you
are in, and in most cases the air fares are high. Fortunately, if
you are in Australia or New Zealand hotels (or even better,
motels) are cheaper than in Canada. It costs $40-60 per night in
local currency for a pretty good place, which invariably has tea
and coffee making facilities in the room to save you money on
breakfast. Further savings can be made because tipping is not
part of Antipodean culture! Petrol (gasoline), on the other hand,

is probably about 80-85 cents a liter. ...continued on next page