My Winter Trip: Canada

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The current cloud on my mind has “Canada” written all over it. Ideally, if you are working in IT in India and you have 4+ years of experience and you haven’t visited the US/Other lands, people often conclude effortlessly that something is wrong with you.

I had the opportunity to become sane and belong to the common crowd, thrice. But I didn’t have a passport. It took me a big 7 months to get that. And when the fourth opportunity came for me to go abroad, recession became a hero. I never died over these as I never felt the urge to go.

Today I need bucks. Love for other lands and foreign currency is growing day by day. I seek a good 4-5 years abroad. With no idea how, I am asked if I would be fine for a month’s trip to Canada during Nov-Dec months at work. I aimed for years and I got a month. I asked for options, tried declining, stated issues and failed. I had to be there. I was required for a server side change to the application which has to be done before the Christmas. A chaotic 10 days followed until I submitted my passport for VISA approval yesterday.

The wait begins. The wait for something I am not interested in. No one is sure if a VISA to Canada is possible this sooner. But if it is, I am really scared about quite a few things. Firstly, Money: I wonder what good would I make out of the heavy winter clothes I would be buying for my travel once I am back to India and I am staring at a big shopping list. Secondly, Winter: Of what I have heard, I am lost as to how I would survive those freezing temperatures. My body never works well with cold.

Apart from a good exposure to my Canadian counterparts, I am at a loss to figure out any other good that this trip might do to me. Being opportunist isn’t easy.