Hamdu Sena Bilgin, a girl known on social media as “Turkish Heidi”, spends her time as a shepherd after school in the village of Yagcilar in Rize, Turkey.
Bilgin gets up very early to help her family by taking care of around 150 cows, sheep and goats.
The goal of this 18-year-old girl is to study agricultural engineering, and her dream is to become Turkey’s future minister of agriculture.
In an interview, Bilgin said that this way of life makes her very happy and satisfied.
“I am a lover of nature and agriculture. I am a shepherd and a student. I don’t know what the conditions will be, but I have big goals. First of all, I plan to study and become an agricultural engineer. After becoming an agricultural engineer, I want to later become the minister of agriculture and bring innovations to field of agriculture to my country,” said this ambitious girl.
As she said, taking care of animals is simply her way of life.
“On weekends and during the summer holidays, I am always with animals. I like being a shepherd. I try to convince young people to love shepherding, especially through my account on social networks,” she said.
She pointed out that she wakes up at 6 a.m. in order to take care of the animals, and that after breakfast she helps the family with chores in the village.
As she said, she never feels tired or bored because she is constantly active and loves working in the countryside.
”Someone who loves his job never feels tired. Of course, being a shepherd is a difficult profession, but when you see how the animals love you, that tiredness turns into peace and satisfaction,” says this girl, AA writes.
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