Something really awesome happened today! #Kamloops /thread
My parents ran away from Romania in 1990 with the dream of giving their children a better life. They landed in Canada with nothing but their two suitcases. I stayed behind (I was just two) with my grandparents, while they got established.
Unfortunately, their chemical engineering degrees were not recognized in Canada. As a result, they both starting working in the service industry, saving up as much as they could to bring me over.
We were reunited in 1992 at Pearson Airport. Three years later, on Oct. 10, 1995, my parents and I became Canadian citizens. I remember everyone singing the national anthem, wearing their Canadian flag pins and being so happy on that day.
As a way to commemorate the occasion, my dad purchased three metres of the 27,000-kilometre #TransCanadaTrail (each metre was $100ish, so it was a pretty penny). (You can learn more about the trail here: tctrail.ca)
My dad selected B.C. as his province of choice for our three metres of trail. At the time, we had done a cross-country road trip to the West Coast and my parents fell in love with the province. “We knew we wanted to live there.”
They never knew where in B.C. the plaque with their names stood…
…until last summer (25 years later!!!), when @supermario_47 happened to be in #Penticton and found it, by chance!
Today, my parents finally saw it for themselves! “It’s amazing,” my dad told me on the phone.
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