What a fascinating story with so many parallels to my own. I grew up in Cleveland. When I was working in Chicago, my wife got offered a teaching position at McGill University, which is right next to Concordia. We too had to go through the Kafkaesque process of becoming landed iommigrants and then Canadian citizens. We lived there for 15 years and raised our own kids in Montreal. All of us had to struggle through learning French. Eventually I did business in French. Now we are all in San Diego but grew so much from our time in Montreal.
What a fascinating story with so many parallels to my own. I grew up in Cleveland. When I was working in Chicago, my wife got offered a teaching position at McGill University, which is right next to Concordia. We too had to go through the Kafkaesque process of becoming landed iommigrants and then Canadian citizens. We lived there for 15 years and raised our own kids in Montreal. All of us had to struggle through learning French. Eventually I did business in French. Now we are all in San Diego but grew so much from our time in Montreal.
Thanks for the comments. Understanding the universality of the experience helps us relate and see parallels with our own lives.
Very interesting interview of a brilliant and resilient woman!
She was so interesting to be with. I hope we'll be able to write together again one of these days.