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Child's Perspective and Introduced to New Food Time 0:02:02 Transcript CB: Yeah, yeah my parents said, “This is going to be our new home.” But they don’t know anything and I don’t know—it’s like we’re going to unknown. Like they said, “This is going to be our new home.” And that’s it. We don’t know …
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Dealing with Winter Time 0:01:43 Transcript But for me the winter was, um—there was so much snow—more than I—because the snow don’t fall that heavy in other places I’ve been. And it was really cold. And I remember one day I went out—you know everybody have an advice for you. They say to you, um, …
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First Impressions Time 0:00:46 Transcript There was no leaves on the trees and that struck us, you know. And snow flurries, you know. That struck us there was one thing. And no leaves on the trees, you know. That was a bit a—it seemed strange, you know, because we always have leaves on the trees in …
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Bringing Sugar, the dog, to Canada Time 0:01:20 Transcript But my husband stayed a month after we left because he has to finish his work and then he has to sell the car. And then we were wondering about our dog, Sugar. Sugar is our family dog and she’s, like—she’s very attached to the children. So …
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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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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, …