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Animated by Dorielle Ashaki Retemyer Music by Sigmund Washington Bänoo Zan is a self-exiled poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator with numerous published pieces and three books. Songs of Exile was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was …
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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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Time 0:02:10 Transcript I was born in the refugee camp The thing I liked most was singing in the church. We went to church three times a day. Sometimes I would sing with the choir, and it would make everybody happy. When I moved to Canada, when I was sad or unhappy I listened to music. I sing along …
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Time 0:03:06 Transcript Coming back to Mexico after two years living in Canada was exciting, we met with our family; enjoy our house with our son, it was a dream come true, right? Well the reality woke us up abruptly. We found soldiers on the streets, the Mexican government had a war with the drug …
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Time 0:03:22 Transcript My memories of the ten day voyage were very mixed. I was excited to be on a ship but I saw so many sad people that I was confused. I remember people crying hard and waving handkerchiefs in the air. I looked over the side and saw big fish following the ship. I now realize …
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Time 0:03:45 Transcript Canada was looking for specialist technicians so my husband applied and was accepted and I joined him one year later. We were married by proxy in ‘55 and I came over in ‘56. The day I left Italy-I was 24 and living in a little town. It was really, really early. We were all …