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… for me, Ottawa is moving up on the scale. There are so many things to consider when deciding what university to go to and just thinking about it makes me confused and frustrated because I know it’s an important decision and I … remember the day when I was 5 years old and my mom was preparing my last and final birthday in Colombia. I didn’t believe her when I was …
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… for Unicef and always went away on small trips to rural areas or villages. I liked packing, getting ready to go, eating quickly, and … with me; I can’t get it package and get it shipped to me. Canada has become from there to permanently here. After living for four years here; … when I was in elementary school when we had some one that’s foreign come, we would always follow them around and ask them all these …
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… Time 0:01:49 Transcript: So, it was very, if I were to sum up my childhood, I would say it was a very comfortable, safe, solid … and resources to do well at school, to have nice activities. It was—it was a good place to grow up. Now, by the later years of high … change, and the way that we thought about the United States, which to me, in the growing-up years, the United States was just the obvious …
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… Nations as a forklift driver, he would stack food into trucks to be delivered to refugees. We had to leave our wealth, our house and most … accepted to Canada after 5 years. My dad got a job in a factory as a labourer. It was a hard job for him, but he never complained. I also worked there too, for one summer. When metal is …
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… Colleen gave me a small bundle of 36 numbered envelopes to keep me company. Inside were notes of encouragement and questions to inspire … reminder of someone who cared. What would Dad like where you are? What language are people speaking? Can you see the ocean? Is there anything … back at them today, I can see how my travelling experiences are connected to who I am, the work I do and how I see the world. These …
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… off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful childhood my life changed with the end of the Second World War when we lost … (two class rooms were furnished with cots for homeless girls like me). 1948-50 I went to Switzerland to work as a ‘mother’s helper’ with … find a room in bombed out, war torn and occupied Vienna and I didn’t want to continue to share a room with 3 others at the residence for …
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… home I thought what to say… In my country when the Burmese attack our land we were so worried that we couldn’t even cry because if they heard … us. The reason why we came to Canada is not because we just like to come. We came because our life is in danger and sometime the Burmese troops come up. When I was three years old I moved to Bangkok to get a special …
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… in the ship’s store and I wanted one. When I asked for one, mom told me she had no money for souvenirs. I knew I couldn’t argue with her so … knew where I was and in the event of the ship sinking, no one would come to my rescue, I panicked. Visions of water rushing in through the porthole …
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… We were forced to leave Latvia in 1944 to escape the approaching Russian army. The family consisted of my father, Ilgvaris (John), mother, Alexandra (Sasha), grandmother, Lina and myself at age … The Ilgvaris Vilumsons Family …
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… Time 0:02:10 Transcript I was born in Cela. I can’t remember about Cela but my mom told me that it was a … what kind of food is that. The food was awful. When I came to Welcome house. I thought to myself WOW THIS HOUSE IS BIG, but then someone told us it was like an apartment. The welcome house had 3 floors. Then after staying at welcome house for a few …