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Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the day I actually had to leave my country. As a kid I always wanted to come to a western country, where kids had their own bedrooms and where they threw muffins and cupcakes at each other because they had more food …
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Time 0:04:26 Transcript Life before we had to leave Iraq, before the war, was pretty good. My dad had a really good job, and he made good money. He worked for the United Nations as a forklift driver, he would stack food into trucks to be delivered to refugees. We had to leave our wealth, our house …
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Time 0:01:55 Transcript Growing up I never felt like I could identify with the people around me. When I was in grade two, my teacher singled me out as an Ethiopian girl by making me sit separately in the class. I was born and raised in Somalia- I never really felt different until he made me feel …
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Time 0:02:23 Transcript Choosing a university is hard. I have always lived in London and Western has always been my number one but now that French is an opportunity 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 …
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Time 0:02:31 Transcript My mom is from the Philippines, and my dad is from Poland. They were pen pals, fell in love and moved to Canada to start fresh. It’s as simple as that. It’s pretty cute story actually, in many ways very romantic. But as I grew up I began to doubt if true love really does …
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Time 0:02:22 Transcript My name is Htee Tha kway. When I was three years old my mother and father had a little farm. My mother and father have two dog, an elephant, four chicken and a garden. My grandpa had little house in the forest and big garden. In the garden there is vegies, mango trees, and …
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Time 0:02:46 Transcript Before I lived in Canada, I lived in Thailand. I lived in a village called Mae Ra Mo. I remember the houses were made out of bamboo and the roofs were made out of banana leaves. I also remember growing vegetables. My parents used to tell me that in Burma the soldiers would …
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Time 0:01:55 Transcript I remember when I was 3 or 4 year old in Thailand. I always go to a river and there were lots of dragonfly. We use to shoot them with rubber band to kill dragonflies. There were a mango tree and we use sling shot to make them fall. The next day I went to the big river there …
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Time 0:01:59 Transcript I remember when I was in Thailand, I was walking back home from school. My mom told me that our family was going to move to Canada. At first I thought she was joking. My parents wanted to leave the camp because they wanted us to be out of the danger zone. They didn’t want us …
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Time 0:02:28 Transcript I called Thailand refugee camp a home because I was born there. It wasn’t much, but it was a home. Before I was born my mom lived in Piobolu and my dad lived in Dawau. They met each other somehow in Piobolu, and came to Mae Ra Moe refugee camp, because Piobolu was burned. …