LIVING IN CANADA

Many years Canada is considered a multicultural country and immigrants all over the world come here pursuing the best life. I came to Canada 2 years ago and everything was different: culture, traditions, people and language. In the beginning of my journey into a new environment I stood between two questions: to assimilate into Canadian society or to preserve Moldavian culture? An important and the biggest contrast that I have noticed between Moldavian and Canadian society was food and language.

While the Canadians have an access to a variety types of food at the restaurants,the  Moldavians eat a traditional type of food at home.  First year I lived in Canadian family where I made first steps to assimilate into Canadian society. In the Canadian family I tried a traditional Canadian cuisine, some of them became my favorite. Now I eat not only Moldavian traditional food, but I cook Canadian courses as well.

For me learning second language was hard and challenging period in my life. In Canada I got chance to talk to native speakers in English, also I have watched TV shows and finally I took the ESL course where I  got a possibility to learn English from teachers whose native language is English.

My life in Canada is in the sharp contrast to the life I lived in Moldova. Beside the fact that between Moldova and Canada exist lots of differences such as: food and language, everyone still can choose between assimilation and preservation own culture. I chose to assimilate.