The Most Stressful Thing for Me in Canada
by Johanna Wild
The most stressful thing for me since I came to Canada has been thinking about the future. Not knowing exactly how much time I have to spend to learn English, and apply for a job related to my career, make me feel anxious.
I’ve met people with a University degree who came to Canada and haven’t been able to work as lawyers, dentists, doctors and teachers, among others. In most cases, they’ve not only invested a lot of time to learn the language, but they’ve returned to study at the University; that’s really disappointing.
There are many obstacles to be overcome in order to achieve the necessary economic stability and, thus, the emotional stability. Most immigrants who have come to Canada want to get something better than what they had in their home countries, but they face the sad reality that must start from scratch as if they’d never made any effort before. The mere thought that years of effort and study will be useless in this country, is really stressful, but we need to keep trying because our security and peaceful life are here without war or evil problems.
As an immigrants, we are between a rock and a hard place, wanting to be in our homeland with our family and needing to be safe.