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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by rukayatd: 10:10pm On Dec 14, 2018
Luce:
Please is dried ponmo considered a meat product.. does anyone know if it’s allowed to bring it into Canada? Please and thanks.

I took mine with no hassles

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by salford1: 12:09am On Dec 15, 2018
blessings2017:


I think there is an exception to your statement above.Going by the little experience I have as a foreign-trained lawyer (FTL) in Calgary looking for articling positions, you'd be shocked to find that most FTL opt for one-year unpaid articling jobs whereas others are being paid big bucks in some law firms. When you have looked for paid articling postions for 6 months yet no sign of uhuru, no be person go tell you make you just patch with one firm like that even if na free. Unpaid articling jobs is a norm in the legal circle and is publicly advertised even inside the library in Calgary Court house. lol.

I know a couple of colleagues doing it though I must warn that it's a suicide mission if you don't have family to support you. Imagine 'no major income for a year. Oh boy!
This one weak me. The reason most firms avoid it is due to legal issues that may arise from such, but una no say una be lawyers. You can sue and unsue each other while at it grin

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by jelmusboy(m): 4:30am On Dec 15, 2018
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II

So, I spent two weeks and some days in Toronto, trying to see if I can stay back there. During this period, I was consulting with landed seniors about life in Canada provinces and at the same time, I was applying for jobs in Ontario and other provinces. Also, my hosts were wonderful but few days after I landed, the husband started grumbling. He just wanted us to leave as soon as we can, and this is the same person who said they used good six months searching for a house in GTA, until they were able to get a 2 bedroom apartment.

Although, I chose Saskatchewan as my province of destination, I consulted again on my choice from a senior colleague who lives there. At last, I decided to leave for Edmonton, Alberta. The high minimum wage, low tax, relative "ease" of getting something to do and assurance of getting job after getting my certification done were the factors I considered in choosing Edmonton. Also, as someone who spent the last 3.5 years in Manchester, England, I believe Toronto is like London which I hated visiting, while Edmonton/Calgary should be like Manchester which I love 100 times more than London. Through, my 3.5 years stay in England, my visit to London does not count up to 10 times cos I hate "Lagos" life in England.

On Thursday, we left Ontario via Flair air. Our flight was 7am flight and had to leave our house around 4.30am to sort out our baggage. We had 6 checked-in baggage and all were overweight. This was because we got delivery of our food items from Nigeria on Monday. We paid heavily for the cabin baggage and checked-in baggage but this is a decision and move we have to make at the early stage. After boarding, flight was delayed for like an hour cos of the snow and the need to check that the aircraft is fit to fly. The flight time was 4 hours and some minutes to Edmonton from Toronto. Mildly dislocated my shoulder while lifting the overweight baggage, I will visit the Doctor when I get the green signal with my health registration.

A senior colleague of mine doing his PhD at University of Alberta came to pick us up at the airport. We packed our bags in the trunk and the back seat and prayed that we shouldn't meet police on our way cos we also didn't have a car seat for my baby. We got to the house I already paid for which a brand new basement, owned by a Nigeria. Someone from Edmonton WhatsApp group helped me checked it out and they were satisfied with the house. I made the security deposit a day before we flew to Edmonton and when we got to the house, the guy was at work. I called him and he directed me to where to get the key to the apartment. The basement was so lovely, new appliances and large bedrooms.

Immediately we dropped our bags, my senior colleague took us to where we ate poundo yam and efo riro around downtown, went to do some shopping and came back late. The landlord came over to say hi to us and he was happy to have us around, as his country people. We also had to remove nylon from some appliances and he apologized for not doing that before we came in. We liked it like that anyway cheesy

I'm happy I chose Edmonton finally and I want to thank Salford for giving me his audience when I was trying to decide where to go, members of Edmonton WhatsApp group who are always listening to me whenever I asked questions about areas to live, and lastly to TheCongo, you are God's sent and a jewel. You exceeded my expectation and it is only God that can reward your good gesture towards me. You showed me that there are people out there who can go out of their way to help fellow human being, you are worthy of emulation I must say. I won't forget my beautiful sister, HappyTBaby, you are too much.

Fellow NLders, I won't mind if you can help me thank TheCongo for what he did for me but please, don't ask me what he did sha grin

Lastly, we are in Canada to thrive and not to survive, let's cultivate the habit of helping each other. Let's post job adverts and any beneficial programs here. Indians, Pakistanis and Chinese are making it big time in western countries by helping themselves, let's do that for ourselves. Helping me does not mean you will be paid lower and me helping you does not mean I won't be able to pay my Bills.

The job hunt starts... Bye guys and thanks for reading my boring gist


jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST


We arrived at the MMIA, Lagos by 11am for a Toronto bound flight via Cairo with departure time of 2.25pm on Sunday 25th November. We had five checked-in baggage and two hand luggage with extra back pack and handbag cos we are family of three (Two adults, one infant). All baggage were for clothes and shoes because we decided to cargo our food items (Two bags, 50kg in total) since paying for extra two baggage will set us back by 110k via Egypt airlines. Looking forward to receiving the food items by next week.

I don’t have anywhere in mind to stay permanently for now, getting a job will dictate that. However, I will prefer the Prairie region and the West provinces.
To landed seniors, kindly provide me with what I need to know and do during this first week, it must end in PRAISE.

I am staying temporarily at Etobicoke for maximum of two weeks by God's grace.


Kindly manage my boring story unlike Einsteino, who will hold you spellbound with his gist.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Nobody: 6:15am On Dec 15, 2018
jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II

...worthy of emulation I must say. I won't forget my beautiful sister, HappyTBaby, you are too much.

Fellow NLders, I won't mind if you can help me thank TheCongo for what he did for me but please, don't ask me what he did sha grin

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The job hunt starts... Bye guys and thanks for reading my boring gist


Wow again. Thank you TheCongo, HappyTBaby, Salford and Salford1... Una be correct Seniors.
We're also coming to write our gists and vote of Thanks.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by joo2018: 7:16am On Dec 15, 2018
Congrats again! Pay it forward please!

To all landed seniors who helped out, may you continue to be blessed!
jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II

So, I spent two weeks and some days in Toronto, trying to see ...

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by blessings2017(m): 7:42am On Dec 15, 2018
salford1:

This one weak me. The reason most firms avoid it is due to legal issues that may arise from such, but una no say una be lawyers. You can sue and unsue each other while at it grin


Na so we see am my brother. Word on the street is that it is easier to get a job as a lawyer than an articling job as a FTL. So with eyes on the bigger picture, most peeps dare the impossible.

Las las we go de alright!
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Nobody: 7:58am On Dec 15, 2018
jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II


I'm happy I chose Edmonton finally and I want to thank Salford for giving me his audience when I was trying to decide where to go, members of Edmonton WhatsApp group who are always listening to me whenever I asked questions about areas to live, and lastly to TheCongo, you are God's sent and a jewel. You exceeded my expectation and it is only God that can reward your good gesture towards me. You showed me that there are people out there who can go out of their way to help fellow human being, you are worthy of emulation I must say. I won't forget my beautiful sister, HappyTBaby, you are too much.

Fellow NLders, I won't mind if you can help me thank TheCongo for what he did for me but please, don't ask me what he did sha grin



TheCongo; Merci
Salford; Adupe
HappyTBaby; Thank you

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by adesbaba: 10:49am On Dec 15, 2018
quick question



Having known that Canada rarely admits 2:2 grads for msc/MBA from the student visa thread n from those university's admission requirements page....

After Landing in Canny as a PR,can they consider taking a 2:2 grad of say 3.3cgpa for MSC/mba......cos I learnt the tuition will be paid as domestic student not international std...

#Justthinking#
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by rainazoe: 10:59am On Dec 15, 2018
To everyone (senior and junior colleagues) that aided @jelmusboy God bless you.

@jelmusboy Go well into Edmonton.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Zeiya(f): 12:24pm On Dec 15, 2018
Thank you
@TheCongo
@HappyTBaby,
@Salford
and other landed seniors who kept the thread going. It is not easy being here after landing.

God bless your hustle. We are coming

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Luce: 3:39pm On Dec 15, 2018
adesbaba:
quick question



Having known that Canada rarely admits 2:2 grads for msc/MBA from the student visa thread n from those university's admission requirements page....

After Landing in Canny as a PR,can they consider taking a 2:2 grad of say 3.3cgpa for MSC/mba......cos I learnt the tuition will be paid as domestic student not international std...

#Justthinking#

Lol, paying domestic tuition doesn’t correlate with CGPA in any way though. Don’t think they factor in residency status when they make the general rules but I suppose if there are candidates on the same level, they might then consider citizens/P.R. first. Just opining smiley

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Luce: 3:40pm On Dec 15, 2018
rukayatd:


I took mine with no hassles

Thanks a lot for answering.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by adesbaba: 4:23pm On Dec 15, 2018
Luce:


Lol, paying domestic tuition doesn’t correlate with CGPA in any way though. Don’t think they factor in residency status when they make the general rules but I suppose if there are candidates on the same level, they might then consider citizens/P.R. first. Just opining smiley




Lolzz..yes...I meant to type *and* not *cos*...

Sure,cgpa issue is completely different from tuition.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Estac: 6:04pm On Dec 15, 2018
My stale landing gist. Plz pardon any typos cos I typed this out on my phone.

I've been meaning to write about my landing but work and Lagos traffic no give me time. Let me just rush this one here quick.

We're a family of 5 but hubby and I decided that he should go first without us and try and find his feet before the rest of us join him. But as PA, I had to land with him. So we booked Ethiopian Airways for sat Nov 24. Him one-way and me return. I took just one week off work to make the trip.

The journey was long and uneventful. We had no excess luggage issues seeing as only one person was staying behind. Got to the airport at about 11am for a 1.40pm flight and went Straight to check-in our luggage. I had bought a small pocket size travel scale off Jumia the week before for about 3.5k and the scale was surprisingly accurate. Completed check-in formalities and soon after we started boarding.

The flight from nigeria to Addis Ababa was FULL.(Nigerians Una too like waka) About half of the passengers were Dubai-bound. In-flight entertainment was OK (not great). The flight was for a little over 5hrs and we arrive Addis Ababa at about 9pm (7pm Nigerian time). Layover was about 2 hrs. Addis Ababa airport (and indeed all other airports I've been in) is an improvement from MMIA. Free Wi-Fi available and WORKING. (MMIA had free Wi-Fi too sha, I connected but it was not working.) spent my layover gisting with my kids and other family members via whatsapp.

Shortly after, we boarded next aircraft to Toronto with a one hour stop in Dublin. This flight was about 30% full (thankfully ). We were like one passenger to 3 seats so yours truly just converted the seats to bed and took off with wizkid in my ears to la-la land. We stopped at Dublin 7hrs later and the flight crew changed (maybe also refueled, I don't know ) but we didn't get off the plane.

We resumed the 8hr journey to Toronto afterwards. We were served meals at least 3x, maybe 4x on this flight by the time we got to Toronto. Arrived Toronto at about 7am Sunday (thanks to timezone), filled one landing card and went to join the queue to submit our COPR. there were just 3 officers on duty at the time, 2 female and a male. An Indian family of 4 before us was grilled by one of the female officers and asked to show POF. Abeg make una keep una POF just in case. The male officer turned down an asylum seeker, an African lady but I don't know weda she naija babe. She cried and begged but Na lie. He felt bad about it afterwards and his female colleagues castigated him for being a softie and being moved by her tears. They firmly assured him that he did the right thing. I also witnessed airport security arrest one guy, it's like he presented false papers. Anyway enuf amebo.

Soon it got to our turn. I had prayed to be sent to the male officer as he seemed to have a "heart". I Kukuma got him. He looked at our copr,asked if we had kids (before then, I didn't realize that our kids were noted on our copr sef), I quickly said yes, he asked why they're not with us, I told him I still have commitments in Nigeria and will be returning. He asked when are they coming and I told him. He seemed satisfied and asked us to take a seat. 10mins later he called us to sign our copr and gave us a form for changing our address for PR card cos we told him we had a temporary address (airbnb ). He dinor now say Welcome to Canada (when his mates were receiving training on how to receive new immigrants, he was playing candy crush, nonsense). Spent about an hour and half here.

Anyways, we left him and proceeded to baggage claim. By this time, our bags were one of the very few left there. We picked them up and went to check them into our last flight to Edmonton which departs at 10am. Got to Edmonton and was picked up by a family friend who took us to her house and welcomed us with poundo yam and correct ogbono soup. She also prepared rice and stew for us as takeaway to our airbnb.

So we had booked an airbnb for 5 nights ahead of the trip. The location of the airbnb was just awesome, the host was great and helpful. It was a two bedroom flat shared with the host who is a bachelor. Our room was ensuite with a walk-in closet. The house was really clean with a great view of the city. The location of the airbnb was so good that we spent Monday to Wednesday walking everywhere to get stuff done. Got SIN, SIM, Registered for health card, library card, discounted bus pass etc.

We were also house hunting for a one bedroom shared or bachelor apartment for hubby during this time knowing that we needed to exit our airbnb by Friday noon. The options were either too far from downtown or above our budget. On Thursday, we strolled to a new immigrant center located 10mins walk away from our airbnb. We were attended to by a nice Cameroonian who gave us lots of information and hooked hubby up with a contact at Breding. When we mentioned our house hunting challenges, he just put a call to a cousin of his who owns houses and rent rooms to people and just like that, problem solved. Viewed the available room that day, paid the landlord (he doesn't live there but comes around) and moved in the next day Friday.

My return flight was scheduled for 12.20am Saturday which meant I was to leave the house on Friday night. But ya girl carry Saturday for head as departure date and rocked Friday night away. Only to wake up on Saturday morning to google reminder of my trip. Trip that has since taken off while I was enjoying snow. I spent the whole of Saturday morning booking for another flight (Chai I suffered o). I finally secured a flight for Saturday evening but Na hubby survival money suffer am. That's how I lost my almost N300k becos Canada sweet me.

I arrived Lagos on Monday afternoon, instead of Sunday which was my original itinery. But thank God I arrived safely. I landed Lagos and somewhat regretted our decision to stagger our landing. After living the easy life for just one week, I no wan do Lagos again. I sat thru last night's episode of Lagos traffic for over 3 hours telling myself "you could have been in Edmonton now but just Lukatiu". Anyway, now I can't wait to go back home.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by joo2018: 6:19pm On Dec 15, 2018
Funny and detailed. Thanks for the gist. Hope you get re-united with hubby at home soon.
Estac:
My stale landing gist. Plz pardon any typos cos I typed this out on my phone.

I've been meaning to write about my landing but work and Lagos traffic no give me time. Let me just rush this one here quick.

That's how I lost my almost N300k becos Canada sweet me.

I arrived Lagos on Monday afternoon, instead of Sunday which was my original itinery. But thank God I arrived safely. I landed Lagos and somewhat regretted our decision to stagger our landing. After living the easy life for just one week, I no wan do Lagos again. I sat thru last night's episode of Lagos traffic for over 3 hours telling myself "you could have been in Edmonton now but just Lukatiu". Anyway, now I can't wait to go back home.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by pepe1: 6:55pm On Dec 15, 2018
jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II

So, I spent two weeks and some days in Toronto, trying to see if I can stay back there.

Fellow NLders, I won't mind if you can help me thank TheCongo for what he did for me but please, don't ask me what he did sha grin


Thank you
@TheCongo
@Salford
@Happytbaby
Other Seniors who have contributed so much to this forum.

Help will never be far from you guys.

@jelmusboy, may Edmonton favour you.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Nobody: 7:03pm On Dec 15, 2018
jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II

So, I spent two weeks and some days in Toronto, trying to see if I can stay back there. During this period, I was consulting with landed seniors about life in Canada provinces and at the same time, I was applying for jobs in Ontario and other provinces. Also, my hosts were wonderful but few days after I landed, the husband started grumbling. He just wanted us to leave as soon as we can, and this is the same person who said they used good six months searching for a house in GTA, until they were able to get a 2 bedroom apartment.

Although, I chose Saskatchewan as my province of destination, I consulted again on my choice from a senior colleague who lives there. At last, I decided to leave for Edmonton, Alberta. The high minimum wage, low tax, relative "ease" of getting something to do and assurance of getting job after getting my certification done were the factors I considered in choosing Edmonton. Also, as someone who spent the last 3.5 years in Manchester, England, I believe Toronto is like London which I hated visiting, while Edmonton/Calgary should be like Manchester which I love 100 times more than London. Through, my 3.5 years stay in England, my visit to London does not count up to 10 times cos I hate "Lagos" life in England.




No word of a lie there. I am always shocked when people say they love Toronto but like they say, different strokes for different folks. To me, the quality of life there is much lower compared to western Canada.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by maternal: 7:25pm On Dec 15, 2018
Snappyfingaz:


No word of a lie there. I am always shocked when people say they love Toronto but like they say, different strokes for different folks. To me, the quality of life there is much lower compared to western Canada.

Everyone has their own reason. One shouldn't be too judgmental. The issue is some Toronto people aren't willing to look outside the GTA. That's problematic.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by maternal: 7:26pm On Dec 15, 2018
jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II

So, I spent two weeks and some days in Toronto, trying to see if I can stay back there. During this period, I was consulting with landed seniors about life in Canada provinces and at the same time, I was applying for jobs in Ontario and other provinces. Also, my hosts were wonderful but few days after I landed, the husband started grumbling. He just wanted us to leave as soon as we can, and this is the same person who said they used good six months searching for a house in GTA, until they were able to get a 2 bedroom apartment.

Although, I chose Saskatchewan as my province of destination, I consulted again on my choice from a senior colleague who lives there. At last, I decided to leave for Edmonton, Alberta. The high minimum wage, low tax, relative "ease" of getting something to do and assurance of getting job after getting my certification done were the factors I considered in choosing Edmonton. Also, as someone who spent the last 3.5 years in Manchester, England, I believe Toronto is like London which I hated visiting, while Edmonton/Calgary should be like Manchester which I love 100 times more than London. Through, my 3.5 years stay in England, my visit to London does not count up to 10 times cos I hate "Lagos" life in England.

On Thursday, we left Ontario via Flair air. Our flight was 7am flight and had to leave our house around 4.30am to sort out our baggage. We had 6 checked-in baggage and all were overweight. This was because we got delivery of our food items from Nigeria on Monday. We paid heavily for the cabin baggage and checked-in baggage but this is a decision and move we have to make at the early stage. After boarding, flight was delayed for like an hour cos of the snow and the need to check that the aircraft is fit to fly. The flight time was 4 hours and some minutes to Edmonton from Toronto. Mildly dislocated my shoulder while lifting the overweight baggage, I will visit the Doctor when I get the green signal with my health registration.

A senior colleague of mine doing his PhD at University of Alberta came to pick us up at the airport. We packed our bags in the trunk and the back seat and prayed that we shouldn't meet police on our way cos we also didn't have a car seat for my baby. We got to the house I already paid for which a brand new basement, owned by a Nigeria. Someone from Edmonton WhatsApp group helped me checked it out and they were satisfied with the house. I made the security deposit a day before we flew to Edmonton and when we got to the house, the guy was at work. I called him and he directed me to where to get the key to the apartment. The basement was so lovely, new appliances and large bedrooms.

Immediately we dropped our bags, my senior colleague took us to where we ate poundo yam and efo riro around downtown, went to do some shopping and came back late. The landlord came over to say hi to us and he was happy to have us around, as his country people. We also had to remove nylon from some appliances and he apologized for not doing that before we came in. We liked it like that anyway cheesy

I'm happy I chose Edmonton finally and I want to thank Salford for giving me his audience when I was trying to decide where to go, members of Edmonton WhatsApp group who are always listening to me whenever I asked questions about areas to live, and lastly to TheCongo, you are God's sent and a jewel. You exceeded my expectation and it is only God that can reward your good gesture towards me. You showed me that there are people out there who can go out of their way to help fellow human being, you are worthy of emulation I must say. I won't forget my beautiful sister, HappyTBaby, you are too much.

Fellow NLders, I won't mind if you can help me thank TheCongo for what he did for me but please, don't ask me what he did sha grin

Lastly, we are in Canada to thrive and not to survive, let's cultivate the habit of helping each other. Let's post job adverts and any beneficial programs here. Indians, Pakistanis and Chinese are making it big time in western countries by helping themselves, let's do that for ourselves. Helping me does not mean you will be paid lower and me helping you does not mean I won't be able to pay my Bills.

The job hunt starts... Bye guys and thanks for reading my boring gist



What profession are you into ? What did you read ?
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by jelmusboy(m): 7:31pm On Dec 15, 2018
Medical Laboratory Scientist, NOC 3211

maternal:


What profession are you into ? What did you read ?

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by princesschuks: 8:03pm On Dec 15, 2018
Estac:
My stale landing gist. Plz pardon any typos cos I typed this out on my phone.

I've been meaning to write about my landing but work and Lagos traffic no give me time. Let me just rush this one here quick.

I arrived Lagos on Monday afternoon, instead of Sunday which was my original itinery. But thank God I arrived safely. I landed Lagos and somewhat regretted our decision to stagger our landing. After living the easy life for just one week, I no wan do Lagos again. I sat thru last night's episode of Lagos traffic for over 3 hours telling myself "you could have been in Edmonton now but just Lukatiu". Anyway, now I can't wait to go back home.


I enjoyed every part of your story.
You're such a great writer.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by salford1: 8:13pm On Dec 15, 2018
Estac:

My return flight was scheduled for 12.20am Saturday which meant I was to leave the house on Friday night. But ya girl carry Saturday for head as departure date and rocked Friday night away. Only to wake up on Saturday morning to google reminder of my trip. Trip that has since taken off while I was enjoying snow. I spent the whole of Saturday morning booking for another flight (Chai I suffered o). I finally secured a flight for Saturday evening but Na hubby survival money suffer am. That's how I lost my almost N300k becos Canada sweet me.
Cough cough. Enjoying snow or "show"....Canadian baby loading...
Na joke i dey ooo grin

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Estac: 8:15pm On Dec 15, 2018
Oga Salford, you are right on both counts. wink grin
salford1:

Cough cough. Enjoying snow or "show"....Canadian baby loading...
Na joke i dey ooo grin

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by salford1: 8:17pm On Dec 15, 2018
Estac:
Oga Salford, you are right on both counts. wink grin
grin grin

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by princesschuks: 10:08pm On Dec 15, 2018
salford1:

Cough cough. Enjoying snow or "show"....Canadian baby loading...
Na joke i dey ooo grin


Yes na.
One for the road grin

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Estac: 10:25pm On Dec 15, 2018
You mean several for the road tongue
princesschuks:



Yes na.
One for the road grin

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Nobody: 10:41pm On Dec 15, 2018
salford1:

Cough cough. Enjoying snow or "show"....Canadian baby loading...
Na joke i dey ooo grin
Za other room things.. N300K carried!

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Randomsue: 11:47pm On Dec 15, 2018
jelmusboy:
BORING LANDING GIST, PART II

Thank you for sharing again...may Edmonton open doors of unexpected favour to you and yours.

Love your courage and how you're embracing the adventure.


Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by Randomsue: 11:50pm On Dec 15, 2018
Estac:
My stale landing gist. Plz pardon any typos cos I typed this out on my phone. home.


Congratulations on the successful landing and thank you for the detailed gist. May the reunion happen sooner than expected for you and yours.

Nice write up

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by tempest01(m): 11:57pm On Dec 15, 2018
Estac:
My stale landing gist. Plz pardon any typos cos I typed this out on my phone.

I've been meaning to write about my landing but work and Lagos traffic no give me time. Let me just rush this one here quick.

We're a family of 5 but hubby and I decided that he should go first without us and try and find his feet before the rest of us join him. But as PA, I had to land with him. So we booked Ethiopian Airways for sat Nov 24. Him one-way and me return. I took just one week off work to make the trip.

The journey was long and uneventful. We had no excess luggage issues seeing as only one person was staying behind. Got to the airport at about 11am for a 1.40pm flight and went Straight to check-in our luggage. I had bought a small pocket size travel scale off Jumia the week before for about 3.5k and the scale was surprisingly accurate. Completed check-in formalities and soon after we started boarding.

The flight from nigeria to Addis Ababa was FULL.(Nigerians Una too like waka) About half of the passengers were Dubai-bound. In-flight entertainment was OK (not great). The flight was for a little over 5hrs and we arrive Addis Ababa at about 9pm (7pm Nigerian time). Layover was about 2 hrs. Addis Ababa airport (and indeed all other airports I've been in) is an improvement from MMIA. Free Wi-Fi available and WORKING. (MMIA had free Wi-Fi too sha, I connected but it was not working.) spent my layover gisting with my kids and other family members via whatsapp.

Shortly after, we boarded next aircraft to Toronto with a one hour stop in Dublin. This flight was about 30% full (thankfully ). We were like one passenger to 3 seats so yours truly just converted the seats to bed and took off with wizkid in my ears to la-la land. We stopped at Dublin 7hrs later and the flight crew changed (maybe also refueled, I don't know ) but we didn't get off the plane.

We resumed the 8hr journey to Toronto afterwards. We were served meals at least 3x, maybe 4x on this flight by the time we got to Toronto. Arrived Toronto at about 7am Sunday (thanks to timezone), filled one landing card and went to join the queue to submit our COPR. there were just 3 officers on duty at the time, 2 female and a male. An Indian family of 4 before us was grilled by one of the female officers and asked to show POF. Abeg make una keep una POF just in case. The male officer turned down an asylum seeker, an African lady but I don't know weda she naija babe. She cried and begged but Na lie. He felt bad about it afterwards and his female colleagues castigated him for being a softie and being moved by her tears. They firmly assured him that he did the right thing. I also witnessed airport security arrest one guy, it's like he presented false papers. Anyway enuf amebo.

Soon it got to our turn. I had prayed to be sent to the male officer as he seemed to have a "heart". I Kukuma got him. He looked at our copr,asked if we had kids (before then, I didn't realize that our kids were noted on our copr sef), I quickly said yes, he asked why they're not with us, I told him I still have commitments in Nigeria and will be returning. He asked when are they coming and I told him. He seemed satisfied and asked us to take a seat. 10mins later he called us to sign our copr and gave us a form for changing our address for PR card cos we told him we had a temporary address (airbnb ). He dinor now say Welcome to Canada (when his mates were receiving training on how to receive new immigrants, he was playing candy crush, nonsense). Spent about an hour and half here.

Anyways, we left him and proceeded to baggage claim. By this time, our bags were one of the very few left there. We picked them up and went to check them into our last flight to Edmonton which departs at 10am. Got to Edmonton and was picked up by a family friend who took us to her house and welcomed us with poundo yam and correct ogbono soup. She also prepared rice and stew for us as takeaway to our airbnb.

So we had booked an airbnb for 5 nights ahead of the trip. The location of the airbnb was just awesome, the host was great and helpful. It was a two bedroom flat shared with the host who is a bachelor. Our room was ensuite with a walk-in closet. The house was really clean with a great view of the city. The location of the airbnb was so good that we spent Monday to Wednesday walking everywhere to get stuff done. Got SIN, SIM, Registered for health card, library card, discounted bus pass etc.

We were also house hunting for a one bedroom shared or bachelor apartment for hubby during this time knowing that we needed to exit our airbnb by Friday noon. The options were either too far from downtown or above our budget. On Thursday, we strolled to a new immigrant center located 10mins walk away from our airbnb. We were attended to by a nice Cameroonian who gave us lots of information and hooked hubby up with a contact at Breding. When we mentioned our house hunting challenges, he just put a call to a cousin of his who owns houses and rent rooms to people and just like that, problem solved. Viewed the available room that day, paid the landlord (he doesn't live there but comes around) and moved in the next day Friday.

My return flight was scheduled for 12.20am Saturday which meant I was to leave the house on Friday night. But ya girl carry Saturday for head as departure date and rocked Friday night away. Only to wake up on Saturday morning to google reminder of my trip. Trip that has since taken off while I was enjoying snow. I spent the whole of Saturday morning booking for another flight (Chai I suffered o). I finally secured a flight for Saturday evening but Na hubby survival money suffer am. That's how I lost my almost N300k becos Canada sweet me.

I arrived Lagos on Monday afternoon, instead of Sunday which was my original itinery. But thank God I arrived safely. I landed Lagos and somewhat regretted our decision to stagger our landing. After living the easy life for just one week, I no wan do Lagos again. I sat thru last night's episode of Lagos traffic for over 3 hours telling myself "you could have been in Edmonton now but just Lukatiu". Anyway, now I can't wait to go back home.

Home is where the heart is.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by MissEmmy: 12:33am On Dec 16, 2018
There isn't just an exception but so many exceptions to that statement. However I'm not one to go into a verbal feud with anyone. I just shut down and keep it moving. If people are not certain of the information they put out there, then they could at least do a little research or state it as a suggestion or personal observation instead of making it a "statement of fact".
I'm just saying...
blessings2017:


I think there is an exception to your statement above.Going by the little experience I have as a foreign-trained lawyer (FTL) in Calgary looking for articling positions, you'd be shocked to find that most FTL opt for one-year unpaid articling jobs whereas others are being paid big bucks in some law firms. When you have looked for paid articling postions for 6 months yet no sign of uhuru, no be person go tell you make you just patch with one firm like that even if na free. Unpaid articling jobs is a norm in the legal circle and is publicly advertised even inside the library in Calgary Court house. lol.

I know a couple of colleagues doing it though I must warn that it's a suicide mission if you don't have family to support you. Imagine 'no major income for a year. Oh boy!

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by salford1: 1:51am On Dec 16, 2018
MissEmmy:
There isn't just an exception but so many exceptions to that statement. However I'm not one to go into a verbal feud with anyone. I just shut down and keep it moving. If people are not certain of the information they put out there, then they could at least do a little research or state it as a suggestion or personal observation instead of making it a "statement of fact".
I'm just saying...
Caveat: Info given on this thread are not absolute.

Nobody knows it all, and we all learn everyday. People here give information based on their experience. If you have any info (contrary or in support), please do not be reluctant to share, so everyone can learn. We can give contrary opinion without getting into a feud. Blessings2017 you quoted gave a contrary opinion without getting into a feud. We all learnt lots from his reply. cool

If everyone kept information to themselves, or shut down and keep it moving, this thread would have been dead a longtime ago.

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