Janice’s Story Working and Traveling Abroad With International Experience Canada

Janice explains how often times, it is the sum of all the small experiences you have with the people you meet that make a lasting impressions. Working and travelling abroad with International Experience Canada has helped shaped her view of the world and the kindness in it.

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Transcript: “Janice’s story working and traveling abroad with International Experience Canada”

Video length: 1m 40sec

The video opens on a hand-drawn image of the earth and four travel photos from around the world.

Text displays: International Experience Canada

Narrator: When I was in high school, I had the opportunity to spend a year abroad in France. I was only 15, and I spent a whole year there, and that really gave me this travel bug and this desire to keep on travelling.

It cuts to a woman talking in front of an off-white background, with her name and origin in a text box in the bottom left-hand corner.

Text displays: Janice – Fredericton, NB

Picture of Janice with rolling hills – France

Text displays: My Travel Memories

Narrator: I’ve participated in International Experience Canada twice. Both times I went and worked in France. The first time, I stayed there for 4 months. The second time, I stayed there for 5 months. I went to I don’t even know how many different countries in Europe.

Picture of Janice with friends in a city square – France

Narrator: I didn’t prepare a lot. So I had to get a visa of course, because to work legally in another country you have to have a work visa, which is where International Experience Canada came in and helped with that whole process.

Picture of Janice in front of London Bridge – United Kingdom

Picture of Janice on a bridge – Belgium

Narrator: One of my favourite memories—there was a big German family in front of me, and there were 7 of them, but they accidentally bought 8 tickets, and so they turned around and they offered for me to come on the tour with them. And that was the moment when everything kind of clicked.

Picture of Janice with friends in front of London Bridge – United Kingdom

Picture of Janice with a small town in the background – Luxembourg

Cut to Janice talking in front of an off-white background.

Narrator: And still in my mind, that’s a special memory to me, because you really realize when you travel the kindness of strangers sometimes.

Picture of Janice with the Eiffel Tower in the background – France

Picture of Janice with a castle in the background – Netherlands

Narrator: That’s one of the most special parts of the experience to me, is all the people you meet, the friends you make when you’re travelling. Whether they be Canadian, whether they’re French, whether they’re from other countries, they’re people that I still keep in contact with, they’re people that I still talk to. I think the best piece of advice that I can give is to just do it.

Picture of Janice with a friend on a hill with houses and trees in the distance – France

Narrator: It can be intimidating at the start. Your parents might not want you to go away for a long time.

Picture of Janice with a friend on the beach – France

Cut to Janice talking in front of an off-white background.

Narrator: A lot of people will say different things, but if it’s something you think you’re interested in, I would definitely encourage you to talk to other people who’ve done it, and to also take the step, take the risk and go abroad, because it will definitely be worth it.

It then transitions to the text “International Experience Canada” and their tagline, with the logo of the Government of Canada at the bottom of the screen.

Text displays: International Exprerience Canada – Connecting you to a world of opportunities.

Finally, it transitions to a slide with the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada bilingual logo and a copyright notice at the bottom of the screen.

Text displays: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, 2020.

It ends with the Canada wordmark on a black background.

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