Sometimes, it feels like living in Canada is just too much work... but this is also why there are so many opportunities to seize.
French woman in English Canada.
Exploring the world with my camera since 1999, translating pretty much anything sent my way, and writing stories and books that may or may not get attention.
Firm believer that nobody is normal... and it’s better this way.
Sometimes, it feels like living in Canada is just too much work... but this is also why there are so many opportunities to seize.
It hit me in the “crackers & soup” aisle, of all places. I’ve been living in Canada for twenty years and I still don’t know what a typical Canadian dinner is.
If Mark’s corner of the Internet was just “too silly” for 38-year-old me, I’ll be fine with it. But online, there’s a fine line between “silly” and “sinister”.
Three white males, 35, 41 and 46 years old gone missing in Ottawa in just a few weeks' time. One was located, Brett O’Grady and Gordon Korac are still missing.
Halloween 2020 was cancelled, so Halloween 2021 mattered a lot.
Dealing with some mundane tasks of life is more difficult than usual these days. We were warned, “new normal,” “post-pandemic world” and all. But I'm wondering what’s not working exactly, and why.
Article views: 70 Moving to a new country is a huge step. Typically, the first practical thing you need to ask is where you’re going to live — can you actually buy and own property to make a foreign country feel like home? As there are about 300,000 new immigrants in Canada every year...
Post-pandemic suburbia is changing and I find it fascinating. Like, right now, I’m watching the birth of “Little India”.
Our Thanksgiving tradition at home is basically me giving Feng and Mark presents and them saying “thanks”.
I’ve been receiving hateful comments for a little while now. The latest one was fairly mild compared to a few previous ones, but I still cringed when I read it.
The Ontario vaccine passport kicked in on September 22 and I’m fighting against Public Health because apparently, my French vaccination proof is “questionable”.
Getting locked out is kind of my specialty, sometimes in real life but mostly online.
Here are a four more things I learned this year when I was “stuck” in France—wow, look at that, the vaccine made me so smart!
I had never thought I’d end up staying in France for five months, but I learned a thing or two from this experience.
We did this crazy thing again—we sent Mark to school. Yes, in-person school.
Boxes are a bit crushed and the tape I used on bottles to prevent leaks is still there—but everything made it to Canada just fine.
I wasn’t sure what to expect upon arrival in Canada—but certainly not a 2.5-hour-long queue.
Nothing says “welcome home” like another PCR test.
We were lucky, we had a good summer. Now it’s time to go back… and jump unto the unknown, once again.
My expectations weren’t very high, it’s been two months that summer should start any day now.
