From November 12th to the 16th, schools celebrated the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide, especially with our international students.

International Education Week takes time to recognize everything previously mentioned, and those who travel to Canada to participate in our education.

From November 12th to the 16th, schools celebrated the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide, especially with our international students.

International Education Week takes time to recognize everything previously mentioned, and those who travel to Canada to participate in our education.

We got the chance to meet two international students attending Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Ololade Kassim and Nidhi Suva.

Kassim moved to Moose Jaw from Nigeria back a few months back. She and her husband originally planned to go with their three kids to Saskatoon to be with Kassim's sister, but along the line, she wanted to take Business Management, which isn't offered in Saskatoon. That's how she ended up in Moose Jaw.

One thing that's new to her is the short travel time in Moose Jaw, and she enjoys the ten to fifteen-minute drive around town as opposed to the two-hour commutes she took in Nigeria. She was prepared for the cold since she lived in the UK, but she dreads anything below minus one degree.

"Right now, I'm loving it really even though I don't like the cold. I think it's okay, the children are happy because I'm here with my family," Kassim said. "I have twins and a little toddler, everybody's happy, my husband's happy, and I think we'll survive the cold."

Another thing Kassim appreciates is the help they receive in schools.

"You get direction. Even if it's not all through the journey but at least you get some direction so for example, you have an issue study, you have the learning services. As an international student if you have a question you can come to Selinda [England], you have printers, and you just have all these services and I'm just like "I didn't see this before."

Now, Kassim plans to stay in Moose Jaw for her children, since they love their school and she doesn't want them to have to re-adjust all the time.

Another student we spoke with was Nidhi Suva. She ended up in here because her cousin already lived here so it made sense for her to attend the Moose Jaw campus. Since 2016, she's been taking business with a specialization in accounting

Originally from India, she finds the flat prairies strange and that her home state had the same population as Saskatchewan, but she is happy she came.

"People are so welcoming here which in India it was the same too but there are so many people it's impossible to get to know everyone on campus or at least most of them on campus at least in your department where you are from. But here, I feel like I know almost everyone in the Business Department," Suva said.