Canada had always been our dream. After getting engaged not only did we start planning our BIG day but we started planning for the BIG move!
After getting hitched in September and a short but romantic honeymoon in Barcelona, my new husband and I returned briefly to our old lives.
7 weeks later and after a whole lot of stress, tears and hard work, we were many thousand feet above the Atlantic Ocean on our way to our new lives in Nova Scotia.
Before leaving Scotland my youngest sister presented me with a notebook, a funky little number with a red stiletto on the front, and made me promise to write a diary so that one day she could read it and see what we’d really got up to.
This blog is an extension of that funky little notebook and it aims to tell our story so far. It will hopefully be a nothing held back account of life as a new arrival in Canada. I also wish to use this opportunity to draw comparisons between the two countries and to give you an insight into life in Scotland. I’ll even try to throw in the odd Scottish phrase now and again [watch out, they'll be in square brackets]! All comments appreciated.
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December 18th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Hi Louise…
Are any of you Canadian or did you have to go through the full immigration route? we’ve lived in NS for 4 years on work and study permits shortly to go through the Nova Scotia Nominee Porgram IF we get our act together!
Look forward to reading your blog!
Carolyn
December 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
When I first met Cameron (my husband) four and a half years ago, his parents had just newly submitted their immigration application. They had lived in Banff for 3 months the previous winter and fell in love with Canada.
Only last October did his parents eventually move to NS… it took that amount of time for immigration to get their act together. Meantime Cameron and I had got engaged and were busy completing university courses and planning our wedding.
We decided that we wanted to start married live in Canada and hence prepared for the big move. We arrived this October and have just started the sponsorship process – Cameron is now a permanent resident and can therefore sponsor me as his wife.
All very exciting. However, whilst the sponsorship application is in process I am not allowed to work. Therefore, I entertain myself by boring everyone else with my stories and discoveries!
December 24th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Hi Louise
Welcome to NS. I have always lived in Canada but I’m excited to be able to see it through a new comers eyes.
Dave