Finding a multilingual home
This is a multicultural and multi-ethnic haven where people from everywhere intertwine in a safe and peaceful manner. Walking the streets, it is possible to hear languages coming from every country …
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April 6 2020 Columns The glory of the Eternal City – Rome
Rome is known to many as the Eternal City. It has lasted for centuries and continues to stand tall even today. Over the holidays in December/January, I went on a mini-Euro adventure that included …
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March 23 2020 Columns Somewhere new is not something I am looking for
I have never had the skin tightening feeling of growing out of a space, of packing a suitcase and finding my somewhere new. Vancouver is my perpetual somewhere new, a community transient, fluid and …
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March 23 2020 Columns Echos from Brazil
The Covid-19 pandemic has required efforts worldwide to contain the increase in the number of cases and death. In Brazil, it has not been different. The largest country from South America has, until …
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March 23 2020 Columns A Parisian New Year
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March 2 2020 Columns From the Amazon to Canada to find a more sustainable life
I come from Manaus, a hot and rainy city located in the heart of the Amazonian jungle. I decided to move, looking for a more sustainable life. This might sound a little paradoxical at first, but it …
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March 2 2020 Columns A love affair with Barcelona
I’m in love! But not with a person, with a country. Over the last few years I have slowly been falling in love with the Spanish language and culture. It started with a flirtation, taking Spanish as…
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February 17 2020 Columns My experience with integration in Vancouver
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February 3 2020 Columns Caring, loneliness and transformation are the three words that sum up my experience so far
I arrived in British Columbia over a year ago, and I’ve been in Vancouver for nine months. Time flies. I had no particular expectations when I left Paris other than to improve my English, practice…
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January 20 2020 Columns Diversity in Metro Vancouver
I came to this city as an international student from Kenya. Living on campus and going to a university outside the country I grew up in opened my eyes up to a variety of people from an array of …