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    1) She felt excited about moving to Canada but was unprepared for the major lifestyle differences. 2) She landed in Montreal in the winter and was surprised by the snow on the ground. 3) She found the cold weather difficult to adjust to but felt warmth from her family, which made adapting worthwhile.

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    1) She felt excited about moving to Canada but was unprepared for the major lifestyle differences. 2) She landed in Montreal in the winter and was surprised by the snow on the ground. 3) She found the cold weather difficult to adjust to but felt warmth from her family, which made adapting worthwhile.

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    1) She felt excited about moving to Canada but was unprepared for the major lifestyle differences. 2) She landed in Montreal in the winter and was surprised by the snow on the ground. 3) She found the cold weather difficult to adjust to but felt warmth from her family, which made adapting worthwhile.

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    Which one is not correct?

    1) She felt _____ moving to Canada.

    a) Traumatized
    b) unprepared
    c) excited

    2) She landed _____ .

    a) in Montreal
    b) with her sisters
    c) in summer

    3) She talks about feeling _____ .

    a) cold
    b) warm
    c) homesick

    4) She knew students from _____ .

    a) Europe
    b) south America
    c) Asia

    5) She says her expereince was _____ .

    a) hard in ways
    b) worth it
    c) what she imagined
    Jeremy: So Abidemi, you were born in Nigeria, but you moved to Canada
    and did most of your schooling in Canada.

    Abidemi: That’s right.

    Jeremy: Can you tell me a little bit about what the transition was like coming
    from Nigeria to Canada and doing a Canadian education system?

    Abidemi: Sure. For me, it was an interesting experience. Both great and at
    the same time—hmm, I don’t want to say traumatic, but very different in
    terms of lifestyle. Since I was very young, I’d loved traveling. I wanted to
    travel. So when my family decided to make the move to Canada, I was really
    excited. But I have to say, I wasn’t really prepared. I had no idea where is
    Canada, America, England—they’re all the same to me at that age.

    So when we moved and my dad had initially made the move. He went ahead
    of us. He got a job. He found a place for us to live. And then, I arrived with
    my mom and my other sisters. There were five girls and we arrived at the
    airport. And my first memory is looking out, mid-December in Montreal—we
    arrived at Montreal airport—, looking out, and seeing this white thing
    covering the ground and thinking, “What is that? Why is it so white?” And I
    remember saying to my dad as he drove up to drive us home, “Let’s play in
    that. I want to play in that. What is that?” So that was my first memory of
    Canada of the snow.

    And it was fun. It was great arriving in December but at the same time, it
    was very cold. Personally, I’m not somebody that likes the cold too much,
    but having the warmth of my family in the midst of that cold made it worth it.
    It was awesome.

    And then at school, making the transition was a little harder. At that time, the
    school we went to, there were not a lot of minorities. So, I think some of the
    teachers and some of the students weren’t sure how to get accustomed to
    us, and we weren’t sure what to expect either. But everyone tried their best
    and we flourished. And I went on to high school and then to university. And
    one of the things was having my teachers—like we were talking about before,
    recognized the potential in me and my sisters and really encouraging us, and
    being with my classmates and making friends and having fun with them .

    And during that time, it was the late ‘90s, and there were a lot of transitions
    going on in other parts of the world. So people from different countries, like I
    remember we had a lot of people from Bosnia because of the war coming to
    my high school, and from other parts of the world, from Asia, so it was a
    really multicultural school—high school that I went to. So learning about
    other cultures through my friends, too, made it really worth it.

    So I’m certainly glad that my family made the move. It’s opened up amazing
    opportunities for me as well. And being able to come now to Japan and
    teach English, that was because of that. So yeah, although it was hard in
    ways that I hadn’t imagined, but it was so worth it. And I’be grown and I’be
    had so many awesome experiences that yeah, I’m really thankful for it.

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