Hi. My name is Garchelle Ashley and I am 19 Years old. I recently moved to Canada from Jamaica where I lived for the first 18 years of my life. I moved to Canada to be with my mom, whom I hadn't seen for 10 years. This Course, Migration and Culture, is interesting to me because it describes some of the feelings that I felt knowing that I had to leave my home and come to a foreign land where I basically didn't know anyone. Being in Canada, away from all my friends and family can sometimes be really hard. Especially when I just got here and didn`t know anyone.
I hope to learn how migration affects not only the people that migrated, but also the people they left behind.
I can relate to your feelings personally. I have moved several times back and forth between Toronto and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia at crucial times in my development as an individual. I have developed many relationships among friends and lost those connections as well. When I hear people talk about their friends, sometimes I have feelings of insecurity, because I don't posses those close friendships. Even moving from Keele and Bloor near High Park to North York, I have experienced feelings of estrangement and have lost many close friendships. To this day I still long to return to Nova Scotia to buy a home, and settle down, but then again I also love Toronto. We always associate estrangement and a longing for return between county to country when in fact it can take place within a place as small as a city. This is just my personal opinion, but one thing I have accepted is that friends come and they go. Life changes and all we really need is a companion to love and share life with.
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