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Author: Susanne Pacher
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In Vancouver we stayed on the mainland with a great couple, our age, and after our stay, we were planning to go to Victoria. They suggested we stay with a Servas host, friends of theirs, who owned a B&B. But the host book said that in May they did not take Servas guests, as it was the busy season for their B&B. But we called them anyway and they said sure we can take you but you have to make the bed for yourself and again when you leave for their next "paying" guest. They had a wonderful dog, very friendly. I tend to look for hosts with pets, as I love animals. It was a great visit, great hosts.
My next memory comes from my hosting experience. I've been a host for over 15 years and have had many more hosting experiences than travel experiences. I received a letter from 2 young men from Togo Africa. I had never even heard of Togo before this. They planned to come to NYC and wanted to stay with me. It was their first Servas experience. I was expecting them on a Sunday evening and had a lamb dinner prepared. But they did not come. I was disappointed. Monday evening we got a call from them, they were at the Togo embassy in NYC and asked if we could pick them up. AL and I went to pick them up and found out that Jean could not speak any English and Leon only a little. I speak very little French, which was their native language.
This was my only visit where language was a problem. But we managed. I did not get to learn very much about them and their country due to the language problem. But in our attempts to communicate we had many misunderstandings. For example, I have a cat, whose kitty litter is in the bathroom. So I tried to
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