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*I know I‘ll go through a lot of changes and I‘ll learn a lot, but I‘m not expecting to come away a completely different person. I‘m not expecting to change the world or anything like that," Inouye says. "But I‘m expecting to be able to be open to everything and take whatever | feel is good from whatever situation and keep that with me. Another thing 1 expect to learn is patience because I‘m going to be with my counterpart for seven months and we may get along, but we may not. So I‘m going to have to exercise a lot of panence. | also think I‘ll learn a lot about myself." Located in the southern semiâ€"arid rim of the Sahara, Burkina Faso is covered by savanna and is susceptible to erosion. Also, Inouye, a secondâ€"year environâ€" mental and resource studies student at UW, has been chosen along with 240 young adults from across Canada to participate in the Canada World Youth (CWY) exchange program, which, since its inception in 1971, has involved more than 18,000 peoâ€" ple from across the nation and from more than 40 developing countries. As part of the sevenâ€"month proâ€" gram, Inouye and a participant from Burkina Faso, West Africa will spend three and a half months in a community in Quebec beginning in Augast. While living with a host farmly there, they will fulfill volunâ€" teer work placements, likely in the field of agriculture, and will get to know one another. Inouye and her L "counterpart" will then travel to _ Burkina Faso for another threeâ€"and * aâ€"halfâ€"month volunteer work placement. University of Waterloo student Brenda Inouye isn‘t looking to change the world by participating in an exchange program that will take her to West Africa later this year. 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The berry, that has seeds on the outside rather than on the inside, grows both as a wild plant and as a cultivated plant in every state in the United States and every province of Tips for strawbherry lovers University of Waterloo student Brenda Inouye will travel to Burkina Faso, West Africa as part of the Canada World Youth exchange program. jit at the door. responsible for raising $1,500 for Canada World Youth, a national, financial support from the Canadian International Development Agency. To raise funds for her participation in the exchange program, Inouye is hosting a benefit concert July 6 at 8 p.m. at 1 King St. N. (above the Stag Shop). The concert features Craig Cardiff, the Fletcher Yalve Drummers, Henry Graham Whiting, and Jeff Zavitz. Tickets are $4 in advance (call Brenda at 886â€"7439) or $5 "They contacted me in December *# of last year to tell me they wanted me s to come to an evaluation session. So . ¢ "" _3 1| went, an it ended up that 1 was accepted into the Burkina Faso "‘;:‘M"Ih"” exchange," Inouye says. "That was to :;' mt part my surprise because by the time 1 exchange prO@FAML . was contacted last December, 1 had forgotten I‘d even applied â€" it had been so long." As a condition of her involvement in the program, Inouye is rom nndemmec Inouye about their experiences and she was inspired to submit an appliâ€" cation. It would be some time, howâ€" ever, before she learned she was Inouye became interested in CWY‘s exchange program three years ago while still a high school student in Oakville. Friends who had participated in the program told about what she‘ll experience there. "I‘m really trying not to have any expectations," Inouye says. 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