Piece by Piece
Stories About Fitting into Canada
HOW DO I START?
1. How did you hear you were moving to
Canada?
✩ Who told you?
✩ How did they say it?
✩ How did you feel?
2. What did you think about Canada before
moving here?
3. When did you arrive in Canada?
✩ What season?
✩ What was the specific date?
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4. What is the first thing you remember
seeing from the plane or airport?
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5. What did you see?
 
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6. What did you hear?

✩ Was it quiet or loud?
✩ What did the language sound like
✩ What do you think or feel when
you hear other people speaking
your language?
7. What did you smell?
✩ Did the air smell different?
✩ Did the food smell different?
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9. What was something funny that happened?
✩ Did you or someone you were with do or
say something funny?
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8. What were some of your thoughts:
✩ About the weather
✩ About the culture
✩ About the food
✩ About the buildings
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10. What made you nervous, or sad, or
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11. How did you and the people you were with

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12. What did people say?   __________________________

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✩ What were some things you said? __________________________
✩ What were some things other people
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BE SPECIFIC!