What I’ve Learned While Living Abroad 📝 // Six Years in Canada

Hi friends! It's been 6 years since I moved to Canada, so today's video is all about the things I've learned while living abroad. I hope you enjoy it :)
Thank you for being here, I really appreciate it!
Love + light,
♡ Emme
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[@obelisk21]

I didn't move to another country but at the age of 22, I moved from Alberta to Ontario for a job. I literally knew no one and had no family east of Saskatchewan. I found that I was homesick for the first couple of years and then I had a bit of an epiphany on one of my trips home during that period. I found that after about a week and a bit of being back home I was looking forward to getting back to my life in Ontario. I never really thought of being homesick in the same way after that.
The other thing that I never really noticed until I was listening to you talk about your experiences feeling like you were a bit different due to the difference in your cultural upbringing was something I actually experienced as well. I am from rural Alberta and ended up working in hi-tech with my first career being a military contractor specializing in satellite communications. I was asked to transfer from the Canadian Arctic where I was working to a military facility in North Bay Ontario hence the move. The contract for the North Bay facility was staffed by Newfoundland Telephone so consequently, everyone I worked with (about 25 people) were from Newfoundland and Labrador so they all had common experiences and stories compared to me. Since they were the core of both my work and social life I even ended up picking up a bit of a Newfoundland accent unintentionally to the point that when I ran across people from Newfoundland for the first time I had to convince them I was not from there.

[@adrianmcgrath1984]

Congratulations on getting your papers! Once you’ve been here a while, the UK begins to feel like a foreign country, and when you go back, you will feel out of place. Things change and the UK will become less familiar, before too long you will feel like a stranger there. After about ten years here, I know I totally do not belong in the UK.
My sister left the UK not long after I did, spending the bulk of her time in Africa. She died last year after a longish illness. When she was settling her affairs, she spent considerable time working with the British Embassy registering her wishes and getting official confirmation letters, that under no circumstances was her body to be shipped back to the UK. She was cremated on the beach in Tanzania and her ashes put into the Indian Ocean, which she had lived beside for so many years. Most of her life there was spent in Mozambique, so many of the people who spoke at the funeral used Portuguese - which she'd become fluent in. There was some Dutch and German spoken by the 'ex-pats' she had known there and finally, a young girl, who began in English, then switched to Swahili, explaining that it was the language she and my sister had always spoken together in.
Nothing about the funeral felt odd, she was surrounded by the people she'd lived around, in a place she loved and where she belonged. It was definitely her home.

[@janicehall3262]

Thanks for these videos. You always raise good points from your experiences. Like you I moved from Ontario to Victoria and I had a lot of friend support but I also had a lot of negative feedback. One of my senior friends said I'm going to die in an earthquake. Another said because I'm on my own it's very dangerous for me and I won't be able to meet friends because I'm a senior and just things like that. While I respected their point of view it was just that .... their point of view. I have my own wants and needs and desires and I always say feel the fear and do it anyway if it's something you really really want. I've only been here a few months but I already feel good about my decision and I look forward to my future. I also like what you say about feeling homesick because you do go through feelings like that if you've never lived far away from your family and friends but it's good to know that it's temporary and it will pass. So thanks again for all you do. 🙏🤗

[@hamishkale1725]

Finally got my IEC last week, cannot wait to start this journey! Love the videos and they help so much!! 😊

[@rogersabino5450]

Great video and also great advice !!! Don't listen to negative people ever !!!

[@casebeth]

Ahhh! Congrats on the citizenship cert! We got my dad his this year :)

[@lorrainefleming6651]

Hi Emmy nice to see you and yes I can relate to what you are saying I felt very home sick it was hard and it was hard also my first winters which took along time.
But now I love Canada.
I couldn't move back home I feel more like a tourist it's true
I feel more Canadian now.
Emmy Congrats again on becoming a Canadian.

[@NEWCOOKINGUSA]

Halo my friend good video To speak English well

[@michaeljoseph3623]

Congratulations on your citizenship!