A woman reports that she emigrated to Canada, in order to study.
Κ.L.: I basically didn’t have any reason to emigrate to
Canada, (Laughs) because my dad had a very good job at the time, because we’re
talking about nineteen… after the war that is. He had a very good job, he was
an employee in the Hellenic Railways of HER (Hellenic Electric Railways) and
my grandma was a widow of the Hellenic Navy and she had a good pension.
Therefore, consider that in our house we had an electric stove that nobody had
and stuff like that, not to enter into such details, anyway and there was no
reason for me to emigrate. I finished primary school, I finished junior high,
I finished the high school of Moschato in Faliro. I was always one of the
first best students, and I took exams for University and I entered University,
it was very difficult back then. We were taking exams from the primary school
to the junior high, from the junior high to the high school and then we were
taking exams for the University across all material, while I was attending a
practical junior high, we were taking exams in Ancient Greek and French and
History and all that. So, anyway I passed all these and I made it into
University, but that summer my aunt had come here, my mum’s sister, who had
come as an immigrant along with her family to Canada, and she began telling me
how beautiful Canada is, how nice it is, that it’s got nice schools,
libraries. In the meantime, I had been learning English since I was little,
and she tells me, how to say, “You can come study there” and I started
gathering my information and so forth. I wrote to McGill University, they
answered me that they accept me, I prepared all of my papers and all that and
I came as an overseas student
