En New Home & Seafood Too

Rae — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 05:32:39 +0000

Mit navn er Jian og jeg kom til Canada i august 2010 med min familie. Saint John var vores første stop og vi vidste ikke, hvor at bosætte sig og hvor er vores nye hjem på dette tidspunkt. Efter en uge ophold i Saint John, besluttede vi at slå sig ned her. Der er masser af grunde til, at vi gør denne beslutning, herunder:

1) Folk i Saint John er meget venlige, especially to newcomers.

2) There are not heavy traffic here and you have less chance to meet heavy traffic.

3) The climate here is better than any other cities in NB.

4) You can eat more fresh sea foods because it is seaside city.

Anyway, Folk er venlige er den vigtigste grund til at bo her. Efter to dage’ hus jagt, vi købte vores hus. Masser af venner, råbte at vi havde gjort en vanvittig beslutning, men vi aldrig fortryde vores beslutning. Vi lever et godt liv her, og min datter kan lide skolegang meget. Surely we try different sea foods very often.

Dette er min novelle. Selvom det ikke er interessant, it is really true.

- Jian i Saint John, NB

From South Korea and Scotland to Small Town Canada

Rae — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:10:32 +0000

This story spans many years.

In 1964 min mand, 4-årige søn og jeg emigrerede fra Skotland til lille by Ontario – Orillia, Stephen Leacock s Mariposa. Vi blev hurtigt assimileret ind i den overvejende hvide kaukasiske befolkning, mange er anden og tredje generation efterkommere af tidlige bosættere. Det var en let overgang for os at flytte fra et land til et andet. We were accepted and made welcome as there were several immigrant families from England and Scotland living there already along with a small, well established Italian community.

It was not the norm for aIl newcomers.

It turned out that the young man was a chemist who worked for the same company as my husband. He and his wife and son had just arrived from Seoul, South Korea so we decided to find out where they were living, and invite them to join us for a drive to show them the area. Their names were Yong and Jong Jin Song and their two-year-old son was named Sonny. Yong spoke English quite well but Jong, who was a teacher, spoke no English. They were living in a trailer park, having had difficulty renting suitable accommodation, due in part to their ethnicity.

After spending a delightful day driving them through the Muskoka area, a relationship developed that has lasted to this day. We laugh about that outing now. Jong and me sitting in the back of the car with our two small children, smiling and nodding to each other and not understanding a word either of us was saying, our seven year old son sitting between the men acting as translator for Yong as my husband had a very strong Scottish accent and Yong could not understand some words. From that day we became their Canadian family.

We have shared their sorrow when Sonny was killed playing street hockey, their happiness when their three daughters were born and the day they became proud Canadian citizens. Over the years our lives and those of our children have been enriched through this friendship and learning of another culture.

It was our good fortune the day Jong and Yong said yes to that drive. Little did we know it was the beginning of a long and mutually enriching journey together.

- Audrey i Vancouver

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En New Home & Seafood Too

From South Korea and Scotland to Small Town Canada