Operation 00Canada [The Stars and the Cookie Jar]

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So!

Selkie has a pass mark of 81 on the FLY, YOU FOOLS! test. (That would be the Canadian ability to work test.)

N has just achieved a pass mark for the first time.

*gazes at

la_rainette* Please to be sending along lots of Froglet's old I Can Read In French books, especially if they have handy activity sheets to make revisions easier. N shall be taught French! Even if I have to start with 'La vache, elle dit MOOOOO.'

[Note: N is actually brilliant, analytical and widely read. She just learnt Russian in college. Who does that?]

*stealthily begins socking away $10,000CN*

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i may, on occasion, have calculated my score on that test. possibly maybe. *looks shifty*

(it helps that

eruthros speaks french, which i most definitely do not. it will help even more when i'm a medical professional.)

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TAKE ME WITH YOU.

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Have you tried to see if you get enough points to get a pass mark? I could teach you French for a few extra points... *tempts*

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I believe I do pass, now that I have my MA. It's just a matter of finding a job....

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Or maybe you should look at it the other way round. If you apply from the US, it'll take about a year for them to process your application, but once you;re inside, you can apply for any job here, and it's easier cos you already have the paperwork.

Point is, if you get a job, and THEN apply for a temporary permit, you'll get a permit within 6 to 8 weeks, and then you'll have to apply for the permanent permit, from within Canada. All applications get then send to a Consulate outside Canada (usually Buffalo), and their backlog is so ENORMOUS that it takes about 2 years to get through. (Yeah, that's what we did, idiots that we were. If we had applied from France, knowing that we were French thus French-speaking, we would have had a particular status and we would have gotten our permits within 6 months. really.)

You know. Food for thoughts, is all. ;)

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But you have to have money to immigrate if you don't have a job, right? At least, NZ and Australia require that you either have a job or have $5000 or family waiting for you when you arrive...

I'm looking on Canadian jobsites, anyway :)

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(yes, but it's only $5000 CDN! *giggles*)

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Yeah...
I would consider emigration in the event that I was offered a really good job overseas, but I won't run. I, however, am already married to somebody who is conveniently from the "right" half of the species. If the situation were different, as it could well have been, I don't think I'd be keen on hanging around a country where you can only be married in 2% of the states.

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*looks through books* I have The Little Prince, THe Song of Roland, and, um, The Phantom of the Opera in French, which I can lend if needed.

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I learned Russian in Moldova. Does that count? At the uni, just Spanish and Hebrew. Yes, crazy polyglot, I know. French, not since high school.

J'ai etudie le francais, mais je l'ai oublie!

What is this employment test? Can you take it online? Just for kicks...it'd be interesting to see how I rate compared to our neighbors to the North.

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:D Will do. I'll bring stuff with me, and I'll help get N. ready for the test. Cos we desperately want you here in Canada, where we can go buy cheese and eat crepes together.

*hugs hurriedly and runs off to Amuse Cousin*

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(with me to the wedding, I meant. Have only half a brain in the morning, sorry)

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You! You you! *misses you*

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Miss you too, sweetheart. *hugs*

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. . . I could probably bribe my brother into letting you crash! Advice: Never move to Nova Scotia if you ever want to see good book or comic selection again. Except the Halifax/Dartmoth area. PEI gets japanese tourists, but I've heard the selection is even worse. Try Montreal, Ontario, or something in Alberta, from what I've heard.

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