Bringing the world to Camosun - Sukhdeep Kaur’s journey from India
With top-notch grades coming out of high school in India, Sukhdeep Kaur could have gone anywhere in the world to further her education, but Canada was always her first choice. “With my test scores, everybody was telling me that I should go to Canada,” she says. “Canada is known as a safe country and what I really like about it here is the respect for talent. There is no partiality.“
No one in her family had ever visited Canada, but the country’s positive reputation was a key selling point. After attending an education fair in her home city of Kurukshetra in Haryana, Northern India, she came away convinced that Camosun College would be the best choice to advance her studies and her career. “I was really impressed with what they said and I knew right away that I wanted to come here,” she says. “There were lots of colleges at the fair, but the Camosun representatives really encouraged students to come to Canada and have a positive international experience. They helped me overcome all the challenges with immigration and things like that.”
Since arriving in Victoria in August 2015, she has embraced her new culture and is grateful for the warm welcome she received. “When I first arrived here I was so excited, and everything was so neat and clean,” she recalls. “My host mum came to pick me up at the airport and she took me home. It was a really nice feeling.”
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