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Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother make up your mind, where is home?” When my husband and I told our families and friends that our plan was to move to Canada, only for 2-3 years, just to learn the …
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Time 0:03:07 Transcript My name is Elva Simundsson. Traditional Icelandic names tend to have meaning so my name means “ripples in a stream”. I grew up as a third generation Canadian of Icelandic roots. Our family farm is in the Interlake area of Manitoba. Grandfather Johann, or afi in Icelandic, …
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Time 0:03:18 Transcript We are family of four from Akureyri in Iceland. We had a beautiful little house on hill in Akureyri. I always wanted to move to a different country, me and my husband often talked about it over the years but it was never the right time. Then everything changed and Iceland …
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Time 0:02:21 Transcript When I was little I used to love going to my grandmother’s house. It was filled with family portraits and china that had come from England as well as her paintings of Nova Scotia. She served tea in the afternoon, and even after 50 years in Canada had maintained her British …
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Time 0:03:34 Transcript I moved in to Halifax just six months ago… To get the worked visa in Chile it was not so hard. There I had documents, papers, experience and language that supported me. I had a history. But when arrived in Canada, I realized that here nobody knew me and I had no past. Here …
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Time 0:02:19 Transcript The night before I left to travel the world for nine months, my oldest sister, Colleen gave me a small bundle of 36 numbered envelopes to keep me company. Inside were notes of encouragement and questions to inspire letters home. They were a welcome reminder of someone who …
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Time 0:03:04 Transcript When I saw the doctor shaking his head, I got utterly confused and scared. He then explained I had bilateral paraganglioma that would require a major surgical operation. I had never been hospitalized before and I did not know what to do and who will be there for me when I …
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Time 0:02:48 Transcript This very morning, I was explaining the meaning of the word ‘distance’ to my English Language students. The Chinese & Saudi Arabian students were fascinated by the many different meanings. We discussed how distance can be the number of kilometers between Halifax and their …
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Time 0:02:42 Transcript Where are you from? Sounds simple? But it’s not. It was 1992, a year that brought a war to the country that I called my own – Yugoslavia. It was an ethnic war of enormous proportions. I became a foreigner in my own city. I was 21. I grew up happy, surrounded by love and care …
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Time 0:04:18 Transcript Perhaps growing up in a military lifestyle gave me the courage to face new environments and an adventurous spirit to explore the world. And yet, never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day I would be travelling halfway across the world all on my own. But as …