today we're gonna be doing something a little bit different i'm actually meeting
up with a woman named hannah hannah moved to montreal from ukraine several years ago
and we're gonna be talking about some of the culture shocks she experienced
moving here we're gonna see what hannah thinks about life in canada okay youtube
i found her here's hannah hey nice to meet you guys welcome to the new travel
thank you you moved to montreal how many years ago almost six years ago imagine six years oh my god
what was one of the first things that shocked you when you when you moved to canada
i think the first and biggest shock was food because you know the first thing that you meet
when you move to different country i had a stereotype that the food in canada is
not good and it's you know like tastes like a paper or something in reality it's amazing food
with a lot of variety and we have a lot of nice farms here in quebec very fresh
and tasty veggies and fruits so i'm really happy with that and especially because
it's a country of immigrants in only one city you can explore different food from different culture
here i tried a bunch of interesting tastes oh my god i tried caribbean food which
is amazing and very tasty if you never tried it try it it's really nice you don't get that in
ukraine no no it's only like italian food some chinese food and ukrainian and here there's
all type of food any other thoughts about the food aspect i just told you about what impressed me in
a good way now i'll i'll tell you what impressed me in the bad way uh oh here we go here it comes
there was rainy day in june uh like a first week my stay here in canada and i thought okay i need
a nice green tea with the lemon you know and there just i saw there's a cafe it calls i think it was
a second cup or something and there i just jumped in this cafe and asked could you please give me
green tea with lemon and they said oh yeah sure and then they gave me this big
paper cup with the water and bag there because in europe we mostly making leaf tea with in a
nice cup you know leaf tea maybe put some milk or lemon and imagine my shark big cup
paper cup and i asked her where's the lemon and she told me it's a flavor so it's inside somewhere
inside and i even i taste this paper cup and it was awful i still i still i don't drink tea here
in the in cafe never okay so what i'm hearing is canada food was a good surprise team was a bad
surprise a very bad surprise what's another shock he had moving here people you know
people are so nice here i don't know is it quebec or just canada in general but people are so
smiley so generous so polite i really like it you know it's like you accidentally pushed canadian
and he says sorry i mean i just really if you're looking for a place where
you like people and people nice that's for sure it's canada there's a stereotype and i
know not all stereotypes are true but i would say there's a stereotype people from eastern europe
russia areas like that don't smile at all is it true that's true that's true and when i moved
first few weeks i was really suspicious i was like why people smile at me all the time
do they want something from me so yeah it's stereotype and yeah it makes sense people not
very smiley in eastern europe well you're saying you're saying a lot of nice things
so far there must be something was there and was there a negative culture shock that part
how are you part you know in ukraine for example when people ask you how are you it means that they
really want to know how are you it's not like hey what's up i'm good good and then you just
you know all busy still now sometimes when people ask me how are you i want to tell them
really how i feel and from my friends too when i'm asking them what's going on i really
care i really want to know what's happened that's interesting to hear on the one hand
canadians are very friendly but maybe there's not that depth to it it's like you're friendly when
you meet but then they have their borders they have time time limits they have their borders
that's a good way to think about it borders and i think time limits because we all have
very busy lifestyle and they just don't have time you know to stay with you and talk about
what also really impressed me is how clean is here even here just look there's nothing there's
no bottles there's no there's no bubbles no paper nothing it's absolutely clean uh
any crate i can't sit on on the grass like that there's no way there's always something
bottles paper and here it's amazing and clean and people care about environment they
and there's no homeless animals that's amazing guys i don't know if people understand that but in
a lot of countries in eastern europe there's a lot of harmless dogs and cats and if cats it could be
cute but dogs is pretty dangerous it can be like difficult emotionally too like when i travel to
like places in central america sometimes you see a lot of stray dogs they're not in good
condition they're not they're not loved people like little kids throw rocks at them exactly yeah
it's very big problem in eastern europe especially in ukraine i can say that there's
a lot of homeless animals and that's so bad and in canada people really care about animals
in general not only about your dog at home about wild animals too they protect them that's
guys really that's amazing that's a good one that's a good one yeah what is really interesting
and it shocked me too in our country we really like to talk especially we talk
in the public transport for example if you take a train and it's like five hours or ten hours
it's like your best friend for these 10 hours you talk about everything with just strangers
just strangers sometimes you don't know even the name of this person just talk about everything
about life about politic about about everything it's why psychologists not popular in ukraine
they're not popular because we don't need them anyone who's got mental problems you know yeah
yeah ukraine is right absolutely yeah you can go somewhere in there and then just enjoy this um
free conversation maybe not just ukraine are you saying that something about the people in all of
eastern europe yes all eastern europe yeah of eastern new york you're like giving me a new
perspective on canada right now because okay like we're friendly canadians like people will smile a
lot but yeah like there's something missing like we don't we don't interact with strangers in the
same way there's no deep connection between people there's no deep connection between people yes and
i think in other parts of the world people are more they're more free to connect deeply do you
have any shock about montreal when you move to quebec because it's quebec it's kind of a little
different the culture does have something distinctly different it's more than the language
it's more than just uh i mean it came from french immigrants a long time ago they had a different
background than the english and it's it's grown into something different and unique it is a big
decision whether you want to move to quebec or other provinces you you will have a different
experience so it's worth uh i don't know maybe watching some of my videos and seeing if that's if
that's the spot that you connect with but if you i think if you want to feel comfortable in quebec
it's better to make this effort and learn french i don't i don't tell you you need to speak
like quebecois but at least try this effort and try to learn some french because it helps you
to feel this culture and it helps you just to feel better did you have french before you
came yeah yeah i learned english as well uh no i just learned french when i moved to canada yeah
and when i moved already i figured out that i need english too so i started to learn english
oh so you only got your english in canada yes oh wow it's not so perfect sorry guys
you're doing great cool well i'm sure we could go on and on about shocks but i hope i hope this
has been interesting for some people hannah do you want to uh tell people what you're doing
for work here in montreal yeah i'm a model and content creator i'm a work in adult industry
so my name is hana oriam so if you're interesting you can you can google it something a lot of
people don't know is montreal is actually one of the bigger cities for adult industry content
right yes if anyone wants to know more about that well they they'll figure out they'll yeah
has that been a shock like sexually speaking are canadians different than people from
eastern europe we we have a big stigma in ukraine about that um i think all
possible people are against it against that yes i think all possibly countries have this problem
it's not only about sex education it's also about gender identity and all the things so uh you're so
lucky to live in canada because people really um very open-minded they're very tolerant and
you can be yourself here in canada it doesn't matter what do you like and who you are it's
what i really like in canada awesome well thank you hannah thank you for being yourself with me
today and for sharing all this information this is great please ask people where to find normal tea
tell me that places and tell me about your cultural shock i really want to know that was
pretty good what do you think yeah i think so i was a bit nervous because you know my language is
not perfect but i hope you can make it work with the editing ah you didn't hear all the things
did you know that this entire video hannah was speaking not her first not her second
not her third but her fourth language let hannah know if you appreciated this video
shout out to hannah and shout out to you for making it to the end of the video
if this video can get over 20 000 views i promise i'll do more like this sharing culture shocks from
people who have moved to canada thanks again for watching hope to see you next time peace