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Caught sight of this while websurfing. It brought a tear to my eye.
I spent almost a decade trying to get to Canada, and be with Emily. I'd gone to Vancouver so often, that it felt more like home to me than Seattle ever did. Towards the end, I felt I could even pass as Canadian...if I'd stop saying "y'all" so much.
I pushed hard to get hired on at Nintendo, not just because I loved the place, but for an ulterior motive. Once I was at NOA, I could laterally transfer to Nintendo of Canada. With a job available to me there, many citizenship barriers dropped.
I took the test online several times. I passed, mostly because I knew a second language (I'm guessing they were hoping for French, but they were going to get broken middle school Spanish). But I never got to a point where I could start working on starting the path towards citizenship.
When Emily and I broke up, I continued to try to push towards moving to Canada...but once I became diabetic, I found that I was almost certainly going to be denied citizenship because I had a chronic disease.
I tried to make Seattle home after that, but couldn't do it. I tried to make a career at Nintendo, but I couldn't get in. That was the major reason I went back to Texas, my first home.
Sometimes, just seeing a Canadian flag can get me tearful, a life that could have been but was wasn't.
http://www.donkom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/leaf_flag_1200x600_wm-1024x512.jpg
I spent almost a decade trying to get to Canada, and be with Emily. I'd gone to Vancouver so often, that it felt more like home to me than Seattle ever did. Towards the end, I felt I could even pass as Canadian...if I'd stop saying "y'all" so much.
I pushed hard to get hired on at Nintendo, not just because I loved the place, but for an ulterior motive. Once I was at NOA, I could laterally transfer to Nintendo of Canada. With a job available to me there, many citizenship barriers dropped.
I took the test online several times. I passed, mostly because I knew a second language (I'm guessing they were hoping for French, but they were going to get broken middle school Spanish). But I never got to a point where I could start working on starting the path towards citizenship.
When Emily and I broke up, I continued to try to push towards moving to Canada...but once I became diabetic, I found that I was almost certainly going to be denied citizenship because I had a chronic disease.
I tried to make Seattle home after that, but couldn't do it. I tried to make a career at Nintendo, but I couldn't get in. That was the major reason I went back to Texas, my first home.
Sometimes, just seeing a Canadian flag can get me tearful, a life that could have been but was wasn't.
http://www.donkom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/leaf_flag_1200x600_wm-1024x512.jpg
