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  Part III-3 – The Cunning Cottage   One year after Ou Yang started working, they bought a little cottage in Lasalle. It was a cottage row house, two stories with a basement. “Row” means that there are other houses directly connected on both or one side of the house. The front of the cottage… Read more »

Part III-2 – Thorn Birds and Prejudice   Ou Yang and Ge Wen only felt financially relieved once she had found a job as a clerk at a small importing & exporting company, where she was paid $32,000 a year. Not bad at all for someone who had only two years of post-secondary education in… Read more »

    Part II – 3- Threshold，A Portal To The New World   It would be rare to find a traditional high wooden threshold in Chinese big cities now, but some can still be found in the countryside. The bigger a city grows, the lower the thresholds get. Isn’t it wonderful that now we do… Read more »

Part III-1 – The Early Years in Montreal   What determines who we are and how we behave? Is a new country with marvellous and favourable benefits of any help to us as we adapt and become better and happier people? What prevents the pendulum from swinging too high on both sides and being pulled… Read more »

  Part II – 2－A Sky Far, Far Away Ou Yang and Ge Wen arrived in Beijing, this time not for Ou Yang’s travel business, but for their own affaires: an interview for their visa at the Immigration Office of the Canadian Embassy: 19 Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Chao Yang District, 100600, Beijing. Beijing and Xi’an, two… Read more »