It’s scary starting life out in another country, I won’t hide that. Depending on why you’re there, it’s like starting afresh and that opens up many possibilities as well as room for self doubt. Because my friends across the other side of the ocean are in bed by the time I get home from a […]

My uncle drops me off at the Service Canada on my first day so that I can find out what’s happened to my social security application (SIN) which I had sent over from London more than a month ago and included an original copy of my Canadian citizenship card. I’ve got bad period cramps and […]

Things had been going so smoothly – the nice chat with the enthusiastic cab driver on the way to the airport, a heartfelt farewell from my friends who’d helped me pack the last remnants of my stuff and made me let go of the paperclips I was still clinging onto – that I was surprised […]