Welcome to my Blog.... if anyone decides to read it. LOL! I wanted to start a blog once we found out that we were relocating to Canada for Jeff's job. It has been an interesting experience that has had a lot of ups and downs. I hope that maybe with my sharing, I can help someone else who may be moving here. This has been a HUGE learning experience for me and mine. I'll add thoughts along the way..observations etc.
When we made the huge decision to move here we did so with open minds and open eyes. But we have found that no matter how open you are, there is always a curve ball out there to throw you off. One of the biggest lessons we have learned so far is how to be an immigrant. Its an amazing and humbling experience. I fully appreciate anyone who moves to another county. It truly is amazing how you can feel less empowered. How in the process you discover that you really are assumed guilty until you prove your innocence and that no one really gives a damn where your from. You have to go through medical exams and visa applications and border experiences no matter what. Here.... being American isn't necessarily a good thing.
Before we began the journey I made the tactical error of surfing the net and finding out how Canadians feel about Americans. To say the least....its not all good. There is a huge misconception about Americans, as well as a huge misconception that Americans have about Canadians. Its like a family truly, where the youngest feels left out and the oldest acts superior at times and forgets to include the youngest. But, what I find is that the lessons are still the same.....there are a lot of assumptions and a true lack of communication between good people. I do have to laugh a time or two, because I was reading some pretty nasty stuff and I got the impression that no one here was over weight. That everyone valued and loved their medical plans, that education was superior and all in all that it was just better here in the great north! But, I thought wrong. Turns out that all in all we are pretty similar in most things. Sure we have cultural differences, different histories, different foods, music and word pronunciations. But as people, really.... we are all the same. Turns out that there are overweight, beautiful people here too. That the medical system here really isn't revered by Canadians, and that school, all in all is the same. So, I'll blog to share my thoughts and observations and maybe, just maybe, help someone else who goes through this to feel not so alone.
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