I’m quickly becoming the kind of person who hoards leaflets and newspapers. My desk is cluttered with business cards and programmes for Dance, Theater and Music events. Anything which might give me an insight into the cultural life of Montreal. I’m looking for something which will throw me into the mix. Whereas the average person […]

When you get to a new country you have to do a lot alone. Suddenly you don’t have these people who you used to do things with but you still have the desire to do things. And so here I am at a Sketch comedy night at the Downtown theatre, Theatre Sainte Catherine, feeling a […]

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 […]