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Time 0:02:24 Transcript We are on the big ship, the Vulcania, Mamma, my sister and me. I look at nonna down below. She holds her hankie to her face. We are too far apart to talk. So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … …
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Time 0:02:31 Transcript This is a long story. One day when my father came back from Canada, he said: “Oh~ Canada is a good place, I love there. Maybe we can think about to immigrant to there?” My mom knew nothing about Canada, so at first my mom was disagree with it, so then they talk about this …
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Time 0:04:19 Transcript January 10th, 2010, almost midnight, a family of 5 people arriving to Moncton, New Brunswick, and after the airport main door open… a lot of snow, … a dark and windy day, and maybe because of the stress of the trip I felt that night was the coldest night in my whole life… my …
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Time 0:03:38 Transcript It was June when I arrived at the Moncton Airport. It was enough for me to be confused. It was too cold. For my life time it should be hot in June, but it wasn’t. Wherever I went after landing, I experienced a lot of different things. Sometimes they looked like strange. For …
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Time 0:03:07 Transcript My name is Mark, and I am from China. I have just settled in Moncton, New Brunswick. When I lived in China, I had my own business and colorful life with my family. I liked sports and exercises, like Chinese Tai Ji Gongfu. I went out for fishing during vacation and no …
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Time 0:04:22 Transcript When people ask me about my immigration story, the first picture that comes into my mind is the snowstorm. It was January 2010, my first trip to New Brunswick — I had just finished my immigration interview in Fredericton when I learned my bus to Moncton was cancelled because …
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What She Would Have Done Differently Time 0:00:45 Transcript But I think most importantly I would try harder to be supportive, um, for my parents and to kind of be around them and, like, really listen to them. Because I felt like I initiated this, like, strange separation of experiences that we …
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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, …
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Difference in School and Speaking Too Properly Time 0:01:19 Transcript ..the school system was different, um, like I said, I struggled in math and science because I felt like I didn’t know what they were talking about. But I was really far ahead in terms of English and history. And I guess that’s …
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First Impressions of Canada Time 0:01:06 Transcript I loved the airport—it might sound silly, to you. But coming from an island, a very small airport, when you see something that's that big, it’s, Wow, this is beautiful. And, again, coming back home and see all the cars. Because in an island you …