Foreign Beaver in Canada

I woke up the morning of my 26th birthday to write myself a letter for my 30th birthday. I turn 30 in a few days, and I hardly remember...

Growing up, my motor skills were only used during one-sided physical fights with my sibling or when I had to run for my life because of a...

My last Foreign Beaver piece was in January 2023. Its now May 2024 and I’m turning a year older soon. What have I been upto? Busy would...

Celine         (imitating Nina Simone) Yo, baby, you gonna miss that plane                      Jesse I know.                    They...

During the summer of 2021, I started taking driving lessons from a South Asian middle-aged woman whom I found through a friend. She...

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the term “comfort food”? Where I come from, you haven’t eaten unless you...

I went to Bangladesh in May which is why I missed my monthly blog post last month. As I write this on a Canadian, hot, summer day, while...

The title is exactly what today’s post is about -PLEASE DO YOUR TAXES. The deadline to submit your 2021 taxes is 30 April 2022....

When we leave our home countries with hearts full of hope, we make many unspoken decisions. The decision to lose a comfortable life, the...

I am writing this on Feb 13th – 10 days before the upload. It’s a Sunday morning – the sun is shining on my face. I am typing without a...

TW: This post discusses body image and self-worth issues I was recently advised to not gain further weight for “health reasons” and that...

If I ask how much money have you spent on shopping this holiday season, do you have an amount? In the list of things you bought, was...

I would like to believe that every immigrant at some point in their life wonders what life would be like had they stayed back in their...

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose...

It's September and Fall is here in Canada. Even though I’ve been out of school for 2 years now, my calendar year is still divided into...

I started this blog on my 5th anniversary of coming to Canada and today marks the 6th year. Not a lot has changed in the last 52 weeks....

Dear readers, I have managed to get another friend to share their experiences with me and I’m so humbled that he agreed to do this....

Phase 1: “I am in full control of my meals for the first time in my life so I will have cereals for dinner just because I can” I had a...

Class of 2021 just convocated and my social media was flooded with all the wonderful people celebrating this milestone with their loved...

My first understanding of homosexuals was through the Bollywood movie Dostana in 2008 (disappointing, I know). I had fun watching it as a...