PEOPLE ARE SOOO NICE HERE!!!
Let’s explore our impressions of coming to a new country and finding Canada a little bit different than our homes…
Nice people – this is probably the very first Culture Shock experience when foreigners arrive in Canada (especially Europeans 🙂 ). Already at the airport, when you are still lost and disoriented, people suddenly ask you if you need help with your bags. You, even more confused, are wondering why they talk to you, those strangers?!
While back home people are busy with their own business, always in a hurry, in Canada all they seem to care about is smiling and helping you. When you walk around in the city bumping into crowds while looking at your map, Canadians apologize to you because YOU are in their way. To say sorry for things they didn’t do, well, this is polite! Here, you won’t ever enter any building without a “Hello, How Are You” or leave a store without a “Thank You, Have a Nice Day”. Have you ever been in a bus in Vancouver? On my first ride I sat in the back in one of those extra-long busses and watched people yelling “Thank You” to the driver while they got off the bus through the very last back door!
What about you? Have you had similar experiences with this Canadian kindness? Tell us your stories!
Have a nice Sunday, be nice and hug somebody!
Xenia
INTERNeX International Exchange
Suite 200 – 211 Columbia Street
Vancouver BC -V6A 2R5-
Web: http://www.internexcanada.com
Phone: +1 (604) 662 8149
Email: pr@internexcanada.com
INTERNeX Canada 
When I drop some cash at the cash register, everybody inline helps to pick it up, and give all my money back to me. Isn’t that nice.
Everybody always wants to drag my suitcase up and down the stairs… Isn’t that nice?!