Marie-Christine’s Story Working and Traveling Abroad With International Experience Canada

Video length: 1m 39sec

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 you come back from a trip, you feel like you have superpowers. Like you’re, you can do anything, because you’ve been through so many things and so many weird stories, that you’re just like, “I’m Superwoman, I can do whatever I want.”

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: Marie-Christine – Lac-Mégantic, QC

Picture of Marie-Christine on a bike in an orchard – New Zealand

Text displays: My Travel Memories

Narrator: When I bought my ticket, I was so happy, like, I was just, “I’m going to New Zealand!”

Picture of Marie-Christine on a cliff with a friend looking at the ocean – Australia

Narrator: I remember taking these pictures with my tickets, but then I think like 2 or 3 nights later, I couldn’t sleep, I was crying, I was just like, “Oh my God, what have I done?”

Picture of Marie-Christine camping out in the back of her station wagon – New Zealand

Narrator: And then I spoke to my dad about it, and he was a traveller when he was young, and he was just like, “It’s gonna be fine. You’re gonna have such a good experience.”

Picture of Marie-Christine in the ocean laughing – Australia

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

Narrator: Actually, IEC made it really easy, because you just have to go, like, you choose the country you wanna go, and then you have all the information.

Narrator: I felt like I needed a purpose, like I need to wake up and do something, so I’m gonna find a job, I’m gonna work and in that way, it could extend my stay as well.

Picture of Marie-Christine with a kangaroo in the background – Australia

Picture of Marie-Christine with mountains in the background – New Zealand

Narrator: It was great, actually. In New Zealand, I got to know a bunch of people—I think we were like 8 or 9 working at the same orchard—

Picture of Marie-Christine in an apple orchard with a friend – New Zealand

Picture of Marie-Christine picking apples in a tree – New Zealand

Narrator: people from different countries, and like we kind of created a small community all together.

Picture of Marie-Christine in the mountains above the clouds – Australia

Narrator: Just go on the Internet, look at blogs and you’re gonna have so many tips from people travelling all around the world.

Picture of Marie-Christine sitting in an apple box – New Zealand

Cuts to Marie-Christine talking in front of an off-white background.

Narrator: And you’re gonna be so proud of yourself, that you just do it: so just do it. First step, you choose your destination, you pick a flight and then you go!

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 Experience 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.