To the delight of my friends here, and detriment, I’m sure, of my family at home, I’ve made the decision to stay in Toronto. To be fair, it had always been in the cards for me to stay here —…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? [Part 1 – The Question]
I started this post almost two months ago. I am certain that this effectively sums up how difficult it is for me to answer that question and I’m sure equally so for many international students, as they come to the…
Touching Distance…
Here are the links to the programs, apps, and products that I talked about in this episode: FaceTime Skype Majic Jack Vonage WhatsApp
Enter the Dragon…my first Chinese New Year’s Party
On a rainy September night, I drove to Pearson and waited in the terminal for five hours. This wasn’t an exercise in patience, I was waiting for the international student my family is hosting to disembark from her flight from…
Thank You Canada!
So lately, every U of T student and their cat has been posting to Facebook and Twitter complaining that they didn’t get a grant that was, as they see it, owed to them by the Ontario government. For those of…
Happy to be a stereotype!
There’s no doubt that by now you’ve seen at least one of the innumerable videos going ’round the internet, entitled: “Things — insert cultural background/gender/sexual orientation — people say.” Now, while I think that most of these are hilarious, they’re…
Stranded in Paradise
It’s your turn to learn
If you’re an international student, whether you’re a thousand miles away from home or ten, Toronto is probably a big change of scenery for you. And now that you’ve been here for a few months (or years depending on which…
Culture Shocked!
U of T plays host to students from all around the world including the Far East, the Caribbean, Central America and Africa. Now while I’ve not been to all of these regions, I can say with some certainty that Toronto…
“I From Foreign!”
In the dialect of my home country, this phrase — in more ways than one — says that I’m not from around here. These would have been the words spoken from my mouth four years ago as I arrived in…