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Citizenship and Belonging to a Country Time 0:02:27 Transcript ES: The day of the ceremony—first they give you a test and then after they say if you pass or not, and we pass the test, and then after we went to the ceremony that for us is for something new because well we have to be in front of all …
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Canadian Values Time 0:03:41 Transcript (Translated from French) I really love peace, I really love democracy, but even more than that: I love cultural values. I love traditions that respect everyone , where everyone can contribute. Where everyone ishelpful, important, and those are the values I …
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Learning English Time 0:00:42 Transcript So then I got this job at a store. And there I got off at nine o’clock, and then I could go home and do my homework. And there were times that I was doing homework until like three o’clock in the morning. Trying to um—read what it said, plus understand, and …
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Relieved to Get to Halifax Time 0:01:19 Transcript When I woke up I—the boat wasn’t moving and I—we had told—we were told never to open our port holes and I went over and I thought, We’ve got to be in port if we’re not moving. So I undid the port hole just a little bit and here was Halifax lights …
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Finding Support in the Bengali Community Time 0:02:03 Transcript I think whenever you meet your friends or people from your own community the first thing is that you will be relaxed, relaxed in a sense that very quickly you can exchange some informations [sic] of the city and also you will get some …
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What She Would Have Done Differently Time 0:00:45 Transcript But I think most importantly I would try harder to be supportive, um, for my parents and to kind of be around them and, like, really listen to them. Because I felt like I initiated this, like, strange separation of experiences that we …
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Like an Infant as an Immigrant Time 0:02:15 Transcript … so it’s very important and understand that again when you’re coming to this country you consider yourself as an infant you don’t know anything, so, again you have to go through the process right from the start because nobody’s going to know, …
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Difference in School and Speaking Too Properly Time 0:01:19 Transcript ..the school system was different, um, like I said, I struggled in math and science because I felt like I didn’t know what they were talking about. But I was really far ahead in terms of English and history. And I guess that’s …
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First Impressions of Canada Time 0:01:06 Transcript I loved the airport—it might sound silly, to you. But coming from an island, a very small airport, when you see something that's that big, it’s, Wow, this is beautiful. And, again, coming back home and see all the cars. Because in an island you …
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Experience with Racism and Discrimination Time 0:02:47 Transcript As an immigrant that emigrated from one country to another, from one country to another, you are expecting challenges. You expected the worse and I was prepared for that. But the one thing that I was not prepared them was for is …