₦airaland Forum

Voltron007:
$100=72900 Naira. LemFi.

Firefox01:
Canadians, I here say women for Toronto get Facebook group where them dey post their men in other to confirm if another woman isn't dating him. Una do this one o

Firefox01:
Canadians, I here say women for Toronto get Facebook group where them dey post their men in other to confirm if another woman isn't dating him. Una do this one o

Firefox01:
Canadians, I here say women for Toronto get Facebook group where them dey post their men in other to confirm if another woman isn't dating him. Una do this one o

Voltron007:
Yup. In page 5 here @ednut1 was exposed by 5 Toronto women.

ednut1:
80% of women on dating apps are only interested in about 15% of men. They swiped the same men. So one man is dating 4 women. Why are they surprised 🤣🤣

njambert:
We'll be homeschooling our kids till they reach college age.We have a 16-month-old and one underway.Here in Edmonton, we have some homeschooling co-ops.I'll be using the one in my church when time comes.

Fizzywah:
So sorry for not getting back to you sooner. No one should make you feel bad for asking questions .

I can tell you that those jobs are in need here and come in different forms. There may be some certs you may need to acquire. I know about getting a Standard First Aid with CPR and AED license. This involves a 2-day training. Check www.stmarkjamestraining.ca. I know someone who used them back in 2019.

Taking a look at this link you'll agree yourself that there are jobs available: https://ca.indeed.com/Social-Worker-jobs-in-Calgary,-AB
First and foremost get a plan for yourself if you are not yet here. Know all of the prerequisites needed to get you one of these jobs. Pay close attention too to the salaries in the link I posted. It may guide you to where you may want to focus.

Obviously I don't have all of the answers for your line of work but I hope this helps.

Cheers.

slydog:
Hi,
Pls how does this homeschooling work? I'm in Edmonton too

ednut1:
80% of women on dating apps are only interested in about 15% of men. They swiped the same men. So one man is dating 4 women. Why are they surprised 🤣🤣

Gerrard59:
I am genuinely curious,

So, for the women who don't get the 15% of men, what do they do? Remain single? Go for the 85% of men? Become feminists lesbians? And honestly, why do they think exposing the face of these men will deter them (the men) from cheating? Also, what strategies are the men doing to fight/do against this anomaly?

njambert:
So our kids aren't yet of age for that but I've been doing my inquiries here.
You'll need to register the kid under a licensed academic institution.Out of 5 school days,the child must be brought to school for one day.
The school at which you register the child under will have a set of activities for Monday, and the rest of the 4days you can homeschool however you want. My pastor's wife says they registered their kids under a Christian school and on the Mondays that they bring the kids to school, the parents are simply guided on some things to do, within a three-hour session and then they can go back home with the kids by midday.

If you are considering homeschool,I highly encourage you.Though it is no guarantee that our children would turn out upright, but it gives us greater chances to mould our children in the ways of the Lord,and we hang unto the promise that if we train our children in the way they should grow,they would not depart from it.Also, be encouraged in that statistics show that homeschooled children generally perform way better than public schooled children at public exams.

We wouldn't let our children be indoctrinated by third party God-haters and expect them to be upright.And this we discussed extensively prior to getting married.My wife will sacrifice career for that and I'll ensure to be the godly provider, protector and leader of our home.This is our premise for homeschooling,and it comes with lots of sacrifices which we are willing to make.You can ping me for further discussion.

Gerrard59:
A solution to the LGTV issue is when the pikins don grow to enter secondary school, send them to quality secondary schools in Nigeria with a religious background. So, dem Catholic run schools and Living Faith etc.

tajuowo:
why i said buy certain things before you travel

Gerrard59:
A solution to the LGTV issue is when the pikins don grow to enter secondary school, send them to quality secondary schools in Nigeria with a religious background. So, dem Catholic run schools and Living Faith etc.

Taal17:
Homeschooling isn't new, it's decades old and it's usually premised on your environment.
Reasons typically are
Schools are far or just not suitable for your children
Parents are struggling handling the school runs for multiple kids
One or both parents ah e non traditional jobs eg. a lot of travel, move around a lot, work remote or intermittently

People homeschool from preschool to high/sec school. Others get kids involved with sports clubs and other outdoor sports so they get to socialise with other kids.

Bare in mind that typically homeschool hours are less than regular school hours so it might not be more than 4 hours a day.

I remember a wife shared that she chose homeschool because her husband worked as part of the crew of basketball team so he travelled a lot. By homeschooling she was able to adjust kids school work so that each child alternatively got to travel with their father on his trips. It helped their family and kids bonded with their Dad better.

I also know those who homeschooled in Nigeria because local schools weren't what they wanted.

Schools are great places of learning
But they can also be distractions and hot beds for bullying, vices and environmental factors out of your control

Voltron007:
Walking to church.

And in church.

njambert:
Good points.
You forgot mentioning one of the top 3 reasons which is providing Religious instruction.

One of the reasons people don't go the homeschooling route is fear that they are incompetent to do it, whereas lots of teachers I know who became homeschoolers rather say the fact that they were teachers was rather a hurdle than an attribute to them in homeschooling.

NuCypher:
Good discussion! Let me give my own opinion. Warning: this is a long one! Sorry

I think many people coming to Canada come with too many expectations. These expectations often start with that well-known worry inherent in the constant “why is VFS delaying my passports?”, “who can I send a message to”, “I just messaged the MP of my district”, bla bla bla. THat offs me on a steady. You are sending mail to VFS to hurry along with your passport that will certainly come if you don’t lift a finger, yet you are not even researching the other things you need to do to SURVIVE in canada. You are not researching the techniques with which to get a job. You are not investigating LinkedIn and looking into how to build a good profile. You are basically instead worrying day and night about VFS sending a passport that will certainly come to you. I’m digressing sha, but I just responded to one of them today, so it’s sort of fresh in my head. Not knowing it is a problem is a big thing.

But that’s besides the point. For me, I can easily imagine anyone regretting their coming to Canada. It’s very easy to regret it. You get here full of so many expectations. The country is after all just north of America. It’s basically America’s 51st state, lmao. So, opportunities should abound, right? Well, wrong! There is nowhere in the world where opportunities are handed out like a chicken on a plate. Not even in the Nigeria you were coming from. Many a times, we have to work for our opportunities everywhere we find ourselves. In any case, it’s easy to regret. You are working odd jobs. You are paying the type of rent you have never paid in your life. Car insurance for a year is basically the same amount of money you will pay for a year’s rent in Lekki. No be juju be that? Lmao! One other thing some of those youtubers mention (I’ll come to them in a minute), is that they have to pay for daycare, or that there’s nobody to help them with their children, or that they are afraid of what is being taught in the schools, so they must send their wards to catholic schools. All well and good. Another complaint is loneliness, how it’s very difficult to find someone to marry, said in the breadth as if it’s any easier in Lagos (Nearly all the men in Lagos are mad! –now, that’s a good reference book).

In any case, it’s easy for anyone to regret their Canada move. Coming in with so many expectations and finding Canada trash these expectations one after the other, they become disillusioned and start to wallow in regret.

But not everyone does. I know because I have a couple of friends who will tell you immediately that Canada has done for them what Nigeria could never have done. One of my friends I was talking to the other day, who was working pretty much an executive assistant job in Deloitte in Nigeria, now finds herself in a position here in Canada that she could never have imagined being in Nigeria. In fact, she actually almost lost her life, but thanks to the same Canada health system that YouTubers love to vilify, she is well and alive today. And not just that, she and her husband have a much better marriage than they did in Nigeria, they recently bought a house that has risen tremendously in value, and are doing extremely well for themselves, all from working what are regular jobs in Canada, not tech jobs, not nursing jobs, etc. Standard, regular jobs. They boast of a net worth they will never have approached in at least 10 years of working in Nigeria.

That aside, personal stories aside. living in a different country and expecting things to obtain like they do in your home country is really just plain stupid. There’s no loneliness in Canada; there’s just a Canada way of life. There’s a way people (and Canadians generally) live in this country that appears to suggest or cause loneliness, but it’s the way of life. People are mostly indoors in winter time, because it’s cold outside. Most get-togethers happen among friends, not strangers. Sports is a very good way of passing time in this country and that cuts across. Football (or what is called soccer) is not a popular sport here. Put simply, there’s a way of life. If you come from Nigeria and you can’t find people to play football with you, it’s not because they are boring. Dude, wake up! Most people just don’t play football here. Have you tried hockey!? In Nigeria, it’s not out of place to just walk into a random party on the street and suddenly get accepted by those celebrating. You could even be served food. In Yoruba parlance, they call it “mogbo moya”. You can’t do that here. It’s the culture. Celebrations happen mostly among friends known very well to each other. I read something the other day when someone said “Christmas was so boring in Canada.” No dude, CHristmas is not boring in Canada. They just don’t celebrate Christmas here like they do in Nigeria. CHristmas is mostly sitting at a table with family, having a good discussion and a drink. Maybe find or get into a friend group where you could also do the same? And there are places you can find friend groups. Start with a church, if you are lost. If you are not a church person, but you are still “lonely”, again, start with a church. They’ll accept you. Or look for friend groups on whatsapp, telegram channels, etc. There’s always one or two things going on. What you shouldn’t expect is that someone will literally come and drag you from inside your apartment to come hang out with them. Even that doesn’t happen in Lagos. But people often get so carried away with their loneliness, that they think everything else should start with them.

And on these YouTubers who are quick to post the “top 10 reasons why people are leaving Canada”, maybe we need to start first with why they themselves haven’t left? That’s possibly a sensitive trigger question for them. I’m sure they are having it so good with their fast uploads/download speeds, their restaurant outings, their “follow me grocery shopping” and nobody is snatching their phones, or their “I went on a Jamaican vacation” to be too bothered about leaving Canada. The life they portray in their videos may in fact be literally impossible if they were not in Canada. That can only say one thing, and that is that they do these videos just for the clicks and the views. Nothing else.
People may in fact be leaving Canada. That’s not unusual. It’s not automatic that everyone will have success in Canada. That’s not written in stone anywhere. To succeed in life, we have to apply ourselves in different ways. But to think Canada doesn’t make the path easy is to tell a lie. I know a few people who have pivoted into tech in Canada from taking a few courses online and truly applying themselves. Admittedly, this happens in Nigeria too, just as it does in Canada. But if you don’t want it badly, why should you expect to get it? And of course, the pay can never be commensurate.

One of the YouTubers I was listening to the other day also mentioned something about how daycare is expensive for them. I'm actually quite surprised she didn't expect this before coming to Canada. It simply means she didn't do her research well. If she did, she'd have planned better for this. Maybe prioritize only WFH jobs? Maybe move without the kids for starters? Whatever is possible, good research will most certainly tell her what to do. What's plain dumb is coming on YouTube to lament about it, as if it was not expected. There's a reason most Canadians are content with just having one or two kids and no more. This is something they have an intimate understanding of while growing up. Most of them have even ruled out kids completely, which is not an entirely bad move for someone who wants to stay financially independent. Again, it's the way of life. And that's why you will hardly ever see a Canadian go on YouTube to complain about expensive daycare. The Nigerian, on the other hand, comes into the country expecting things to be exactly like they left it in Nigeria. Sorry, babe, that's not how life works. You needed to understand this well before making your Canada move. If you did, you will plan much better for it.

It’s not a surprise that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. That saying is truer than ever about those who wallow on their couch in Canada thinking about what fancy life they had in Nigeria and why they can’t have the same in Canada. They grovel in their previous success and cannot replicate it. You start to wonder if they really truly succeeded in Nigeria or if it was just all luck. Was passing that exam in Nigeria a fluke for them? If it wasn’t, why are they struggling with passing their exams here? Did they truly understand the subject? Did they have the passion for what they did in Nigeria? One of the tales I told up there about the couple who succeeded in Canada actually has a side to it that’s not that impressive. The wife was a practicing doctor in Nigeria who couldn’t scale the hurdle of practicing in Canada. Talking to her, you could perceive she wasn’t even passionate about being a doctor at all. Little wonder she couldn’t truly apply herself in Canada to scale that well-known, difficult hurdle. She ended up with a government job that she still enjoys now anyways. But at least, she’s not complaining like the many others.

There are different sides to Canada, let’s be real. There’s the good and the bad. But one thing I can tell you for real is that opportunities abound, but only if you set your mind to earning those opportunities. That much is true.

Enculer2:
AEIP is arranging a webinar on Wednesday on how to become a professional engineer in Ontario for anyone interested.

tenderjunkie:
I'm interested