Personal Experience: Moving To Canada

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About four years ago I moved to Canada from a region of a country where there existed no such thing as ice skating forget snow fall. This stark difference between my living conditions has prompted me to put a lot of things into perspective in order to adapt to my life in Canada. After some time I started to realize that it is important to adapt so as to enjoy all aspects of life in a cold city like Winnipeg and not just my career. Two years ago I made of list of things that I wanted to accomplish and ice skating was at the top of my list. Around last year, my friend asked me if I would like to join him and some other people for a round of ice skating at The Forks, Winnipeg. Initially I hesitated for a second but ended up saying ‘definitely I will’; after agreeing to it, I realised the challenges it would bring to me while experiencing it for the first time and I ended up …show more content…

When I took my first step on the frozen floor of the Red river, I immediately realised my folly as I had misjudged the slipperiness of the ice as it was it worse than I had imagined it. I decided to follow observation based learning, I observed how my friends operated their skates and tried my level best to emulate them for some time. When that plan didn’t work very well, all three of my friends gave me personal accounts of their first skating experiences. I tried to skate using the knowledge I gained from their accounts and realised that it was making difference to my learning outcome. When I was holding the railing of the stairs leading to the Red River ice skating trail, and trying to stand upright, all my friends were on the ice telling me to let go and I answered back to them about my fear of slipping on the ice. Two of them came forward, detached my hands from the railing and gave me an impromptu guided lesson in

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