The country: Second largest country in the world. Highly developed, modern, safe. G7 state. Gigantic dis-tances, woods, seas, mountains in the west. Languages: English and French (only in the east of Canada). Most towns and inhabitants live in the belt along the U.S. border. Largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Calgary.
The language course cities: Vancouver (1.8 millions inhabitants) on the west coast. The largest city in Brit-ish Columbia, a multicultural “melting pot”, young, modern, goal-orientated, cosmopolitan, with a high standard of living and climatically favoured with mild winters and warm summers. Only English is spoken in Vancouver and west Canada. Therefore, the language course that is taught is English!
Arrival: Flight to Vancouver. Some flights go via the USA. The participants are picked up from the airport and taken to their accommodation.
The Farmstay regions: West Canada, British Columbia and Alberta. The Rocky Mountains go through Brit-ish Columbia. East of it stretches the lowland plains of Alberta with gigantic grazing areas. Most livestock breeding enterprises, ranches and corn farms are located here.
Type of Farmstays: horse farms, livestock breeding enterprises, dairy farming, corn farms, mixed farming, hobby farms, forest enterprises, organic farms.