So, I was home, writing a brochure for an oil company about its achievements in social responsibility ,when I came up with the crazy idea of looking to study abroad and taking my husband and son with me. That night my research began and I didn’t sleep. First, I looked in Europe (where my twin sister lives), then in United States… but, suddenly, this blog came up. I read it and I looked for the program from this “Fanshawee” College (as I used to pronounce it!) that showed the exactly list of courses I was looking for! The rest of the programs, I found around the world, were marketing and advertisement focused, others in business, others in graphic design…but this one had it all: a solid and practicable base to do PR and Corporate Communications in any field.
I started navigating in the “Fanshawee” College’s web site, then, after several days searching about Canada and London, I put the college’s name in one of the Venezuela’s search pages and I couldn’t believe that the college were going to participate in an Educational Fair organized by the Venezuelan-American Friendship Association and the Canadian Embassy that was going to be held in Caracas. I thought: This is a sign!

I went to the educational fair in the Marriott’s’s Hotel with Mariano, my husband. He was very excited with the idea of living outside the country for a while since the political situation in Venezuela was turning a democratic, peaceful and oil rich country…into a Cuba-like communism.

At the fair I went directly to the Fanshawe’s College’s stand, I met Mr. Nelson Melgar from the International Students Office and talking to him persuaded me that this was the correct place to go. The following months I gathered all my university documents, I legalized and taking the to be translated and in December, while spending vacations in Mexico, I sent them all with my application through internet then, I crossed my fingers.

On February I received the Admission Letter!. Later on we all applied for the visas and we came here on July 19th to look for a place to live and to know the city before I start classes.

After my first week I am delightful! I just told my husband yesterday: I am in the right place! I just love it!

Thank you all my classmates and teachers for your warm smiles, thank you for the greetings in the hallway, thank you for being such a smart group, different colored -green, blue, orange, gold!- people! This is going to be a good place to learn, this is going to be a wonderful year!

I always wanted to participate in this blog but I was shy to do it. Now, I’m part of it and I barely believe it…

See you next week, Rosy.