First Deployment to a Foreign Land

For me it was the first tour in a foreign land, a foreign country. You see pictures, photos, the news. None of it, the training you get can train you for what you do see or what you do when you are there in the aspects it can only prepare you for what may happen but not what you see. It’s a war stricken country as everybody knows. When you see children walking around with barely any clothes, foot, you know, no shoes, things like that there. You don’t see that here in Canada or at least any other places that I have been within Canada. It takes you back a few steps. I mean, you see farmers so I understood the farming aspect of what their culture is like coming from a farm myself. But the way they farm is not like we farm with machinery and tractors. They don’t have it so everything is done manually when they grow their stuff. Some people are at luxury to have a machine and bonus for them. But a lot of it’s done with animals, like mules and stuff and everybody works together in order to live.