Comments on: Sharing a personal story – Guest post by Cecily Walker

By: Maktaaq

Maktaaq — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:17:25 +0000

I moved back to Vancouver after almost 6 years away and I feel like I don’t really belong here anymore. I never noticed before how cold the people were; even my relatives, all Latin types who should be gregarious, have stopped hosting all-night parties and are now into sedate Starbucks lattes. The only things I would miss about Vancouver are the libraries and the mild weather.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:14:07 +0000

I spent a year living in Toronto. The cold there *really* got me, having been reared on Vancouver’s mild winters (and Hong Kong’s tropical-slash-air-conditioning before that). But I too have the feeling of feeling a city’s cold shoulders.

At the same time, as Kathleen Edwards says, “Good things come when you stop looking.” That’s what eventually happened for me in Toronto, when I started engaging with what I found enjoyable about it there and tried not to look for things that I had loved in Vancouver, because I knew they’d be hard to find.

If you ever feel like sharing stories from home, I, for one, would be interested

By: melaniea

melaniea — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:01:46 +0000

I’ve just returned to Vancouver after a glorious year away. I’d been here for a decade before the sabbatical, and also felt claustrophobic from the looming mountains and smothered by the seemingly never-ending rain. More than that, I’ve never felt like I fit here. Square peg and round hole and all that.

In the year away, while I missed friends, I never once missed Vancouver. And, last week when my plane touched down, I sobbed uncontrollably. I was back.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:58:28 +0000

fascinating! i am always interested in the experiences of other immigrants from the states.