Canada, a country of dreams for many young people around the world, especially for Indians. Nowadays, the world is fighting with something very unusual, things which we used to see in the movies where everything is lockdown and going out from home means risking our lives.
Like every year, lots of people have migrated to Canada this year with new dreams in a beautiful country and now facing completely unexpected situations. I, Manpreet Singh is one of those who came here enrolled in Humber College, was desperately waiting for summers so that I can start exploring places and do part-time jobs to help my expenses. Now, April is about to come and life has seen a complete upside-down throughout the world.
I know everyone is facing a bad time, no one has any idea about what is going to be next but do you know what is worst for the International students?
First living alone in such a hard time where the family is 7000 miles away facing such a situation all alone with worries about us. Secondly, colleges/universities are closed and courses have moved online. Imagine students spent a lot of money coming sofar and study in a new environment, end up studying online in a completely locked space. So now we students are paying a lot of rent, groceries, college fees, just for staying in the room and studying online dar from family. So depressing right !!
Not just that, as we are students, living in a shared space so chances of getting a virus are way too high. Further life has become so depressingly that even when my head pains I feel like I am the victim, and to make it worst, I am all alone having no idea about the procedure to go and test my self. I have no idea what documents I will have to bring for a test, how much money I will end up spending and end up asking for claims. Yes, that’s the moment when I feel why did I come here and I literally don’t want to discuss that with my family as they will get scared. I want them to feel I am fine and strong here so that they can just think about taking care of them.
I know the situation is tough for everyone, not just us, I know Govt is doing a lot to support but are they thinking about International students? Do they have any idea what they are going through? They need to pay rent, pay fees, buy groceries and survive. No such notice as anything they are going to do to help them survive seems like all they care is about Canadians only or people who are well settled here. I have heard nothing like they are going to do for us financially or even taken any step to make health checkups easy for us. I just want them to know, International students have helped a lot to grow this country and even if they don’t care about us due to our current status, even then just be selfish and remember if we will have to go out and work and Canadians will not, still that won’t help Govt to reduce the spread. Because probably I will be joining a job soon, I actually joined it, they selected me and called me for orientation which I had to cancel due to advice by Govt to stay home.
I don’t know what’s next but hoping everything will be under control soon and things will get better for everyone. So if anybody feels like helping me in this situation, feel free to donate anything. Even 5$ is appreciated. Click Here to donate. or Send at Paypal
Just be safe, keep your self clean.