Show posch family visited by miss daines chiq is the fifth of it a series by miss josephine daines telling of her experiences in europe before leaving the van 11 boorn farm the names of the next farmers f we were to live with was waa sent to each of us my farm was to be in the southwest of the country in the province of zeeland before going there we were invited to attend a course at a polk folk high school for a week more about t that hat later we ive were instructed to send one of our bags by mail to this farm instructions were carried out but about three days before we were to KO go to the farms faring mr air the man in charge of our exchange called me into his office ile he said it seems as if my air deoude the farmer whom I 1 was to live with was a bachelor farmer and even living with his big parents arrangements were soon changed and made for me to go to a farm in north 11 holland olland the were tops As far as I 1 was concerned there a better farm family in the country mr air and mrs afro posch poach have two daughters ite is 22 and IS its ita had spent a year working in england and so spoke english very well maicke had studied english in school and spoke it fairly well mr air and mrs airs posch poach speak any english but that sto stop P us they helped me learn a little e dutch the posch poach farm was in the little village of stompetoren toren and in the polder the rm neer e er this area had been a lake and was drained over years yeara ago to make over acres of farming land the farms here were chiefly planted in pasture and mr air poach 9 had ad a go 00 acre acra dairy and sheep farm two laborers did most of the work mr posch poach was wall burge muster of the little town so spent most of his time in the office ile he was also dyke graaf in part of the north holland olland 11 province with this job he was in charge of dykes lockes roads and polders in that area this mean that he had to regulate the water level in the canals or keep the dykes dekea in repair but he was the person in charge to see that the other person did his job maicke and its ita had both been to a household school after completing a high school the household school as most in the country was very specializing the girls had coursed in cooking sewing ewing a and household caro care but very little else another part of the poach family that I 1 forget is the two dogs and four cats who practically lived right with us u their house was large three bedrooms three living rooms and a kitchen again attached to the barn bam and all very beautiful let me say again the were tops and im glad things came out as they did otherwise 1 I might still be in the netherlands at the home of a bachelor farmer |