My Immigration Journey

One of my favorite questions about asking people who came to the museum is "What did you decide to leave home and come to Canada?" Adventure and love

My story is different from their story. I started from a person who decided to get married in my hometown This is a person I know since I was 5 years old. After making a decision, I told my family to leave home. My mother saw me - she was crying

Fortunately, relatives traveling to Nairobi in Kenya accompanied me on the first flight from Bujumbura to Ethiopia.

He checked my baggage and told me how to find the door by the security guard. From there, I think that I am a specialized traveler (I am not, really!). I arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France, but that was an adventure. I took the wrong car to my terminal. Fortunately, I am in France, I can understand this language.

From France to Toronto, the trip was nice, but when I saw someone checkin through the machine I was confused. I thought, "How can I ask for help, I can not speak English." I heard that the airport representative speaks with the transceiver in French.

"Where is French?" I asked someone standing in front of me instead of asking how I could find French speakers.

My English is not enough, so I do not want to keep talking. To make matters worse, I promised my husband to call him after I landed in Toronto but I did not think that I needed Canadian coins to use a public phone. I have $ 50 in my pocket, but after such a long journey, the search currency exchange kiosk is out of my reach.

Finally, I took the last flight from Toronto to Halifax. It was postponed for 2 hours. I landed at Halifax Airport at midnight. My husband and three other friends came to the airport to see me.

When I finally got out, I put a winter jacket, scarf, and mitten in my wallet. My husband laughed at me, as I was detained in October, people said I could tell me I was not from Halifax.

Regardless of country of origin, many immigrants encounter similar things during immigration trips.

Angelique Cishahayo was a visitor experience interpreter at Canadian Immigration Museum in Pier 21 and was a welcoming participant to Canada.

Whatever neat movement will take Colomba's immigration trip as America's victory, as in the Parga version, a fairy tale of ragged balls. However, in my experience immigration trips - a successful trip - were not that simple. Like most immigrants, Colomba pulls among relatives of León. And he insists that she forgotten them when she adapted and would like to swallow her all relatives in America. In 1988, George HW Bush and Doug Wead wrote autobiographical Man of Integrity and discussed the possibility that they would provide them. George P. Bush to his grandchild. The boy is all eleven years old, but his grandfather is already very clear that this son of Jeb and Columba will take over this dynasty to the next generation. He ended up offering a book to his wife after all, but he wrote a letter to George P at "Gumby". And, he saw it and imagined 'P' in 50 years. On the rocks of the sea

Like many immigrants, my journey to America starts with a dream of desire and freedom. My memories of immigrants to America are full of my brains. Looking back on the current discussion of immigration control in the United States, my story will revive. I am your typical child's dreamer, and I sometimes wandered into la la land. The type of dream I am accustomed to is not the type you do when you are in a horizontal position on a soft feather mattress. This is the kind you want in a vertical posture to circumvent your problem by looking at you summoning to utopia utopia. On this important day, recite the Gettysburg speech in my usual dream trip, and somewhere in Yunjiu: