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International student experience
- 09 May, 2018
- Laura Arenas Colombian international student
When fashion is your passion every single detail, from pattern making to the actual garment, is important to learn for establishing your own business. This is what I thought when I was in Colombia and had my online fashion boutique. My business was growing and my costumers were happy with my product but I felt something was missing. I had an excellent seamstress that was in charge of making my designs come true, most of the time they turned exactly how I wanted but even though some of them end up with something different because perhaps she didn’t know how to get to the point I wanted to. That’s why I decided I wanted to learn all about pattern making, so whatever I created came out exactly how I had it pictured in my mind.
In 2008 I studied French in Montreal and had an amazing experience, I promised myself I had to go back to Canada one day, so why not this time. I started searching for Fashion schools all over Canada, I knew I wanted a smaller city because of my son. That’s how I came out with Saskatoon, also the agency that was helping us search for the school and with all the visa documents, recommended us this city. I contacted the school through email and had a good response from them. They send me all the information I needed for my enrollment. I started my process with the academy of fashion design, I applied, had a telephone interview and got the letter of acceptance (one of the best days of my life). After all I was going to study what I really wanted. I applied for the Canadian student visa with all my documents and I got it, after 2 or 3 months, so it takes couple months to complete the process.
The 22nd of August 2017 our trip started from Bogota, Colombia to Saskatoon, Canada. We flew from Bogota to Houston, Houston – Las Vegas, Las Vegas – Minneapolis and finally Minneapolis – Saskatoon. We arrived at midnight and we had around 9 suitcases, it took us a while to get out of the airport. When we came out Heather, our teacher, was there waiting for us, she helped us with everything, finding an apartment, transportation; she is a real angel. Finally we found an apartment that worked well, in a good location with easy transportation.
After all the experience of going through tons of documents, hours of flying and hotel sleeping I can definitely say iit is amazing, I would totally do it all over again without hesitating.
Laura Arenas Campo
