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Our Christmas traditions
We are there two days from Christmas practically and with each passing year, we are adding some traditions to our end of the year, more specifically related to Christmas. For six years we really cared about this, before the kids, the…
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Autumn/winter forecast in Ottawa
Alice enjoying the colors of autumn – love these colorful chrysanthemums On September 22we welcomed the autumn and unlike many people, who hate to see the summer say goodbye for 9 months, I love the most colorful season of the year…
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10 years in Canada: more Canadians every day
10 years of our arrival! Behold, we have reached a milestone in our immigrant career, a decade of new country, a fresh start and readaptation. With 10 years in Canada, we no longer feel "newcomers" obviously we feel safe and adapted.…
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Ottawa Weather | Month by Month
Ottawa, the Canadian capital and also the city we call home around here. From our early days here, when people discover that we are immigrants and more precisely, from which country we come from, we have always been asked how we…
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Becoming Immigrants | The decision
In our first year of permanent residents in Canada. I was here evaluating our 10 years in Canada coming up, how much has happened and how much we've learned. The certainty that we did the right thing comes to us every…
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The art of immigrating
At Ottawa airport, the day we arrived as permanent residents in Canada. Just like art in other fields, the art of immigrating is yes, in a way, complex and not for everyone. Today, after basically 9 1/2 years of the moment…