Hey Everyone! I ni swogoma? (Greetings and how are you in Bamabara, a Malian language) Unbelievably, it's only been one week since I met my Canada World Youth group in the Montréal airport. Since then I have been surrounded by a crazy whirlwind of activity and a rollercoaster of emotions. It all began on July 8th... After saying goodbye to my parents I met the other 8 Canadians in my exchange plus 9 others from the second CWY group. We waited in the P.E.Trudeau airport for 3 hours and acquainted ourselves with one another. Luckily, I wasn't the only one who wasn't a fracophone. In fact, there were a few people who didn't speak ANY French, a few with no English, and when the Malians arrived a few more who conversed with each other in Bambara.
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