I know travel is hard, but the close-mindedness of these people is so hard to deal with. Anti-China guy thinks that because he reads western propaganda on Chinese history he knows everything. Ugh. Hate his ass.

My life is so weird… this is the thing that’s gonna push me to talk to the finance people at my university because they’re the only ones I have on hand to really ask about this. I’m not super thrilled but I know my parents aren’t being malicious…

This is actually how my stepdad explained it to me, sort of. That there would still be interest on any loans that I take out, but because its my policy then anything I pay back just goes back to me? Regardless, I know for a fact that I would never take out a loan from this policy because loans are awful, I already have student loans I have to pay back eventually and that whole experience sucks so I never want to go through it again regardless of whether the money stays mine.

I guess that this policy is supposed to be like a savings account but it gains money overtime even when I don’t touch it? I am going to meet with the insurance people soon, my stepdad will be in the video call as well, and I guess things will be explained more to me. I can also ask my own questions considering I want to leave the country in the very near future.

Oh so it’s even worse than I thought. Very cool :(

They have their own policies too but want to make me one so I can get money too. They’d be paying into both their policies and my own until I have a proper job, that’s when they’d pass the policy to me while they only handle their own.

Sure, making and accumulating money is great but I’m scared of this whole thing blowing up in my face. I also don’t trust the people that push infinite banking considering their stupid articles on socialism.

I don’t know any financial advisors except the ones at my university but I have no clue if they could help me with this…

The one I’m writing right now. I would give a serious answer but it seems like everyone is joking around so I’ll keep it to myself lmao.

Thank you so much! I really tried to make my readers feel like they were in this small part of my father’s hometown. Visiting it in real life was such a strange and warm feeling. If you have any suggestions or anything let me know!

Thankfully for our final draft we have 1500 words, which is nice lol

I agree, but as someone who lives here I am almost 100% certain that Alberta would immediately be absorbed by the US, which would make things even worse here than it already is. I guess I am just scared about conservatives gaining more power…

Ah, my first draft is handed in (don’t know if it’s been graded yet) but it has to be resubmitted again in a final draft form in December. So it might have to wait until then or I can just see when my draft will be graded.

I would love to share it but I’m apprehensive mostly due to plagiarism? I wouldn’t want my professor to find it here. So if there’s advice on how to bypass that then I’ll heavily consider sharing.

The small reason why I’m apprehensive is because it’s not heavy on communism. It alludes to it with phrases from the revolution and the red carnation imagery, but most of the story is about trying to reconnect with family and culture and being scared. If you’re okay with reading something like that (only 700 words, that’s the limit sadly) then I will share.

I worry that I’m too old to attend ELAM, as I am now over the age of 25. But I’ll keep an open mind!

I appreciate the rec but I’m too old to attend ELAM, you have to be between 18-25 apparently, and I am not American. Although CubaHeal seems like the place to contact for Canadians to attend med school in Cuba.

Thanks, Maeve! Love to share my school experiences and the gossip because I am such a stereotype of my culture haha. Hopefully my story is read on Friday so I can share what everyone thought of it, we’ll see if they get weird or chill!

I’ll keep posting these until I graduate.

I’m already tired lol

I forgot to mention that regarding canada pivoting to other trading partners, people are hesitant to accept China as an alternative because both Canada and China are not aligned ideologically. It is also unclear how far China would go to protect Canadian security ties. My professor said that China is geopolitically predictable, it’s been the same regime for so long, but Canadians are more comfy with the EU, regardless of the horrible right-wing governments because they are liberal democracies. China is perceived as an authoritarian state that violates human rights. There was no mention of propaganda and racism effecting people’s perception of China. I need to ask him how much he knows about China.

Im all for pivoting away from the US but it’s a shame that basically the only alternative partners Canadians think about are the EU and other global north countries. We were actually talking about other trade partners to replace the US in my polisci class last week (will make a post about it) and the only alts were EU and tentatively China.

Thank you Comrade 🥹

I will ensure to write in my will that my next of kin shall take over my account

LMAO, but yes my family are from the Portuguese islands, I unfortunately am from Canada 🙃