Letters from Canada

I wonder sometimes at what it would be like to study someplace that isn't Canada, in which the first language isn't English and few people speak either of my languages (the other being French).

I also wonder what others truly think of Canadians, others being non-North Americans, of course.

New culture, new ideas. The need to adapt. How does it make you grow as a person?

Canada's International Student of the Year Award submissions gave me a taste of what it would be like in reverse, if I weren't Canadian and yet had come to this huge country to study. I smiled and shed a few tears as I read the submissions.