What Moving to A New Country Taught Me

Lessons were learned.

Nerissa Talique
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMar 27, 2022

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Photo by William Bayreuther on Unsplash

On the 12th of September 2021, I left my home country of Jamaica to continue my post-secondary education in the city of Edmonton, found in the center of the northern Canadian province of Alberta. Yes, I a young woman knowing only the scorching summers of my tropical home, decided to move to quite literally one of the coldest places on the planet. To say that it…

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Nerissa Talique
ILLUMINATION

A young woman with a wide ranging love for all things literature and nature so much so I dream of being both a Biologist and a Novelist.