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Forum: Canada
Mar 5th 2013, 2:55 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,894
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Applying for citizenship from the U.K

Have you thought about working in a preschool or as an educational assistant in a school until you can get your citizenship? Not as much money as teaching, I know, but your qualifications should be...
Forum: Canada
Feb 12th 2013, 2:56 am
Replies: 94
Views: 8,775
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Cost of children's extra-curricular activities in Canada?

The coaches at one son's club are from the UK and played professionally there. The coach who now does the tech training was on the technical staff at Man City. The goalkeeping coach is Canadian but...
Forum: Canada
Feb 12th 2013, 1:44 am
Replies: 94
Views: 8,775
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Cost of children's extra-curricular activities in Canada?

Yep, afraid so. It's not cheap - a lot more than my friends pay for their kids' soccer in our old home town.

But that is what it costs here - and as I said before, it is the fact you have to...
Forum: Canada
Feb 12th 2013, 1:27 am
Replies: 94
Views: 8,775
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Cost of children's extra-curricular activities in Canada?

One son plays here in town, the other plays for a club in Calgary. For the one in Calgary, he has four to five sessions of team training or technical training a week, plus one session a week...
Forum: Canada
Feb 12th 2013, 12:21 am
Replies: 94
Views: 8,775
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Cost of children's extra-curricular activities in Canada?

I think one of the hard things for children's activities here is that you pay up-front rather than paying weekly. So at this time of year we pay out $500 per child as a lump sum for the outdoor...
Forum: Canada
Feb 11th 2013, 4:46 pm
Replies: 94
Views: 8,775
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Cost of children's extra-curricular activities in Canada?

Competitive soccer - just short of $2000 per year for one son (indoor and outdoor seasons), plus heaven knows how many pairs of goalie gloves a year, plus tournaments etc. About $1000 a year for...
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2013, 1:54 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 1,422
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Structural Engineer considering a move

I'm not sure what a minimum salary would be with five years experience.

My husband had about twenty years experience when we came here and he did take a drop in salary initially, from what he...
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2013, 8:05 am
Replies: 4
Views: 1,422
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Structural Engineer considering a move

My husband is a structural engineer in Calgary. We moved here six years ago.

At that time several companies who were members of the Consulting Engineers of Alberta went over to the UK...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 20th 2012, 4:36 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 2,866
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Cat Owners...are the Canadians reinventing the wheel?

We have four cats. The three younger ones all drink from a cat water fountain (which is plugged in all the time and doesn't make any noise unless the water level is too low).

We actually bought...
Forum: Canada
May 6th 2012, 8:07 am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,790
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Flights to Calgary in Dec and waiting on work permits in UK

Our flights were full there and back - full on the way out with ex-pats going over for Christmas and full on the way back with tourists clutching ski bags!!
Forum: Canada
May 5th 2012, 1:23 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 1,790
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Flights to Calgary in Dec and waiting on work permits in UK

They are the only ones who fly direct from Manchester to Calgary. So it looks like everyone will have to go via London if they want to travel in winter this year. Not great. Will bump the price of...
Forum: Canada
May 4th 2012, 5:01 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 1,790
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Flights to Calgary in Dec and waiting on work permits in UK

They were flying direct from Calgary to Manchester in the December to February period up until now. We went to the Uk for Christmas 2011 on an Air Transat flight direct to Manchester and came back...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jan 26th 2012, 4:22 am
Replies: 1,167
Views: 282,136
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: CIC Citizenship timelines

No problem! (I did wonder what I'd done wrong!!)

I hope you get your letter with the test date soon. Good luck!

Lisa
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jan 25th 2012, 4:32 pm
Replies: 1,167
Views: 282,136
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: CIC Citizenship timelines

A timeline of about twelve months seems to be the norm for everyone I know of here who has got their citizenship recently.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jan 25th 2012, 10:52 am
Replies: 1,167
Views: 282,136
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: CIC Citizenship timelines

We will have our citizenship ceremony next Monday. We sent off the application mid December 2010. We received the acknowledgement and book in January 2011, got a letter with the test date mid...
Forum: Canada
Dec 24th 2011, 11:26 am
Replies: 23
Views: 6,195
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: has anyone used pickfords or gb liners

We used the Manchester depot of GB Liners in 2007. They weren't the cheapest but were the most helpful. Great team who came to pack. Our stuff went into storage with them for a few weeks and was...
Forum: Canada
Dec 3rd 2011, 8:13 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,232
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: German police check translation

Is the translation requirement a recent thing? I also had to get a German police check for our PR application and I didn't have to send in a translation with mine. That was four years ago.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 14th 2011, 11:24 am
Replies: 18
Views: 4,371
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: CITIZENSHIP TIMELINE SHARE

Think you're told in advance when you get the test date letter, if you are having the ceremony on the same day (based on the people I know who have done it in the last year or so). So if you were...
Forum: Canada
Jun 30th 2011, 6:34 am
Replies: 6
Views: 975
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: 44 citizenship ceremonies taking place across Canada on July 1

Have a fantastic morning tomorrow, Mrs Woodstock62!! Will be thinking of you.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 17th 2011, 4:54 am
Replies: 39
Views: 3,780
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: More f***ing snow

I'm ******** sick of it too. The tops of the leaves of lots of my flower bulbs are hidden under all that snow - I know because I saw them for a few days before they were hidden yet again!
...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 22nd 2010, 9:57 am
Replies: 9
Views: 1,288
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Canadian yoofs

My son's at Junior High and they're just the same.

But then again where we lived in the UK, all the High School kids would walk to and from school without coats when it was pouring down with rain,...
Forum: USA
Oct 16th 2010, 7:09 am
Replies: 19
Views: 22,764
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Bringing M&S Xmas Pud over to US

Do you declare them on the customs form which asks if you are bringing in food?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 8th 2010, 7:58 am
Replies: 36
Views: 4,067
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: what do we all do when we are not skiing, photographing bears and living the drea

Glad it's not just my son - and he's in Grade 8 and very rarely ever gets any homework - and he's been questioned too!! In fact his home room tutor sends home an email every night telling us what...
Forum: Canada
Sep 24th 2010, 3:28 am
Replies: 26
Views: 3,209
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Commutes to Calgary

I certainly don't think your realtor should be using that as a selling point for the town.

Apparently the population of Okotoks has been "capped" several times over the years - and then gets...
Forum: Canada
Jul 31st 2010, 2:50 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,243
Posted By Lisa_W

Re: Canadian Affair - Christmas

My parents are on the same flight as yours coming out here, but are staying for a week longer - we decided it was cheaper for them to come here than us to go there!! Think it cost about 1000 GBP or...
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