um so for the first time ever i'm going to tell you folks why i really moved from Toronto,
Canada it was because i fell in love with this amazing woman in Jamaica and look at us now
i did not even know you when you lived in canada or when you moved home what is going on enabled
okay let me just take over things here because they're going a wire and when it comes to finding
your soul mate they're not always just up the road or the same country even but packing your bags and
hopping on a plane to move your life can't be as easy as we think so we're linking up with
model and mommy alicia miller Powell who did just that to be with the love of her life asapha paul
alicia good morning to you hey alicia good morning that you make that sound very intense and scary
so so well that's my first question i mean when you started thinking about this did you have any
of those feelings or were you like nope this is this is definitely what i want to do i don't think
at that moment i really had any of those thoughts go through my mind it was just like this is what
i want to do this is my person i'm ready let's let's do this let's make this sacrifice so no i
didn't really think about that in that time being but now here you say it i'm like wow
wow okay so so tell me what the experience has been like you left you were you guys met in
toronto um in 2012 um here you are now in jamaica um obviously the kind of work you do you can
travel back and forth right but the relocation some for some people it's a bit of a shock
i don't know how familiar you were with jamaica before that time so tell me what the landing was
like so you made a decision you packed it all up and you're in the airplane and you touch down
and a couple months in you're like oh your thoughts um okay so first let's start when
i first came to jamaica it was a bit of a culture shock that with patwa i couldn't understand a word
they were saying i just was shaking my head and nodding my head to everything they were saying
like i probably just look like a little idiot just sitting there but um it was i think with my job
the transition of just being in a different environment it helped a lot because i'm always
working with different people i'm in a different country different city so different stats so
transitioning into living in jamaica it made it a bit easier but it's still hard because you're
leaving your friends your family your comfort zone it's still a different environment that you have
to adapt to so you have to get to know the people and how they operate you know everyone's different
culture is different you have to get to know that as well so it's been like easy and then also you
know has its times as well where you're like all right you know i actually kind of missed you know
the fast life or you know right now by the way assistant oh you're on a bridge and didn't meet
uh instagram oh you understand you understand you got it you got it but even the not
your accent sounds like it's actually being neutralized it's evening out
yeah so it's not as canada yeah that's impressive i did that deliberately
i did that deliberately just to see if you would understand but know that you understand oh name
how did you guys meet um actually we had ran into each other in 2012 then in 2015 officially
he actually slid into my dms and i remember just
being like why is the sofa in my dm store now you know
what's been what's been the most i mean we want to find out from you what the what are
the five things you should consider before you move across the world but what's been the most
difficult adjustment for you here do you drive in jamaica alicia i actually learned
how to drive in jamaica oh my god yeah well while i was pregnant with my son i was here
taking lessons oh my gosh in the car hot at all it must have been a lot of fun with the taxi driver
but when you when you look back now tell me what those five things are that you would advise
everybody who is in your position to really think about and have established before you relocate
right i think now that you're i'm thinking about it it's time you need time to get to know each
other you need to be able to trust each other you can't move and think that oh because i don't
get to see this person every day that maybe this is how i get to track them like the trust needs
to be there the time needs to be there so you can really get to know each other communication
is always key so because you're not necessarily seeing each other all the time that's all you have
communication you have to be transparent also so transparency with each other because at the end of
the day if it's something you don't like he can't read your mind from miles away yet alone when
you're right in front of the person it's impossible for a person to read your mind if
you're not stating how you feel and finances are so important yes finances like for me
i had to really consider with my work okay it's a blessing i can actually get to move
around here and there so for anyone that's in my position that's thinking about moving
make sure either your job can help you relocate or there is another job you can find in this area
finances for sure you both need to discuss that if you make this move and let's say in six months
time you can't find a job as quickly are you guys gonna be able to survive are you gonna be okay
so yeah that's definitely important all of those and then love and friendship okay
you need to make sure you're in love not lost because if you move for the wrong reasons then
you're definitely going to hold it against your partner which is so unfair because it's such a big
sacrifice that you're making for for love so it needs to be there he needs to be a best friend he
or she has to be your best friend stand that what about doing this for them
what about jamaican food what's your favorite food oh that's tough right now
my favorite would be fried chicken um curry goats i like to have them both fried chicken
with coriander yeah if you're going to incorporate the fried chicken with the curry board yeah you've
become one of us and what do you miss and what do you miss from from canada free food
well actually i was living in work for a few a few years before i actually i haven't lived in canada
in a long time so um i guess if i'm talking about toronto i would say kind of like the african food
the the restaurants were there if i was able to just still feel like at home can just walk there
pick up something or i can make something as well as i've become an expert at making jamaican foods
good on you good on you yeah good to have you here as as one of us no regrets clearly
yes yes no regrets and being and being here feels like being home being in ghana is very similar as
well so when we're going to see on the track on the track i used to run in high school and that
was it i ran the 400 meters and that was a long long time ago okay so the answer is no time soon
so no that's like that's like simone just she used to run a long long time ago but she she
doesn't anymore because she she has other in you know interests now so she don't know right right
it's so good to meet you really really good to meet you i think i think i see the big man
run behind yahweh or something like that so tell him hi for a son um yeah he was i will for sure
look after yourself god bless you and your family um all right and then we will hear from you uh
some more i'm sure nice to catch up with you alicia thank you thanks for having me all righty
alicia miller powell dropping some gems especially i guess if you're in a relationship where
you know you have jobs like they have and if they're traveling all the time disappointed
truth be told why are you disappointed now wait let me get comfortable yeah get your shot harold
what seems to be the problem because we never i i could tell them the five things because you
know i was a foreigner will come home yes to my love what what year do you come home what are you
from canada to jamaica no they they might say we went to new york seventy went
when was it yet it's something 80 something when i was about 10 from dead middle of your mind okay
the second of this