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Jennifer Chantal Pullen

Born: 13th March 1976

Jennifer (Jenny) was born in Calgary, Canada but moved back to England when she was 2 years old. She is the daughter of Roland David Pullen and Dianne Louise Pullen nee Wray and the sister of Samantha Lynn Pullen.

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Jenny grew up mainly in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. When she was about 13, her family became Christians, and got involved in a local church. Her pastor came into contact with this world-wide movement of Christian communities. He went to visit some of them in Canada, and came back all excited about it. Jenny got interested, visited one in Ireland, and eventually joined the movement.

When she finished school at 16, Jenny decided to go to Covenant Life College, which is run by this Christian movement (see above). She moved to northern British Columbia, Canada, to a farming community called Blueberry Farm. She studied at the college for four years and graduated in 1997. Jenny stayed on at the farm. Jenny is now a trained Teacher by profession.

Jenny's education history is as follows; Sandygate Infants School, Lindley Infants School, Lindley Junior School, Salendine Nook High School and finally Covenant Life College where she Studied English and education.

Jenny's claim to fame is that she is the tallest Pullen female measuring 6" tall!

Jenny wrote the following description of her life in Canada in 2002:

"I live in a Christian community in the North of British Columbia, Canada. I teach in our private college, Covenant Life College, and in our high school, Blueberry Christian Training Centre. We get students in from all over the world, but we are very small. The largest our branch of the college has been was 35 students, and probably about the same for the high school. Right now I am teaching history, English, and education courses to students from Uganda, Canada, America, and Mexico. Believe it or not, I love to teach. It's a challenge, and it is a meaningful career.

We are a farming community, and living so far north makes farming an intense job. We can count on three months of summer and hope for four. We run school almost non-stop for nine months, then take off the full three months to focus on the farming. We have over 3,000 acres of land (not all cultivated) which we plant mainly to hay. We have done grain in the past. We have a pure-bred and full-blood Limosin cattle business of about 200 head. We also grow our own vegetables between four gardens and several greenhouses, and we have dairy cattle, pigs, horses, and chickens.

I, personally, am not really the farmer type. However, I chip in with the rest and have great fun weeding gardens, throwing hay bales, chasing cows, and processing the harvests. It's just wonderful to get out into the hot sun after long months of darkness and freezing cold. It gets to minus 40 degrees out here, and sometimes colder. We don't waste our summer hours.

My inerests include:

  • Reading - Definitely number one. I'm a book worm. I eat books as my dietary staple.
  • Sports - Not especially good, but love to get out and have fun. I like volleyball, skating, skiing, basketball, Tae-bo, swimming, soccer, squash, hockey, snow machining. . . . I like most sports, except ones deliberately invented to torture, like cricket and American football.
  • Socialising - I like people.
  • Painting - I like splashing around a bit for relaxation. Have sold some stuff for a pittance. The tourists like to buy authentic deer, moose, elk, and caribou antlers, so I find them in the fields and places, paint a little design on them and make some cash.
  • Music - I play the piano. Sometimes my friends and I get together and jam."