Dr. Amara Pope
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And then kind of building up my industry career, I was at some points doing four different jobs at a time just to try to get that work experience. So having immigrant parents, I saw the sacrifices they made for me and my younger brother. So I had that drive in me to kind of make it somewhere when it came to academia and industry. But now that the Ph.D.
is done, I want to focus on having a family one day. That time for me is so priceless. And I've been able to kind of accomplish those personal career goals of mine. I'm still going. I mean, I'm never going to be completely satisfied, but priority shift in different stages of life. And I think I'm at that stage now where I can put that a little bit to the side and focus on my family time.
I know parents are aging. Stuff happens in life. I lost somebody very close to me last year and I know how precious like value and time is. So that to me is the new kind of shift for 2025. I love it.
They are my world. I mean, I, I am very close with my parents. I they're Trinidadian. So family is huge to Trinnies and growing up, you know, they immigrated to Canada kind of on their own. We have a few aunts and uncles in the States and Canada, but again, moving to a really small town, we were a far stretch away from a lot of family members.
So as a unit, my brother, my mother, my father and I became very, very close. And, um, That is such a blessing. That was something I didn't really recognize at the time when you're growing up. But now that I had moved away to actually Vancouver and then I moved back to somewhere closer to my parents, I'm about a 40 minute drive.
I still make sure at least twice a week to see them, whether I'm driving down and working from home by them because I work remotely or just seeing them for like a Sunday brunch. I think that that's really important. And their drive really enabled me to ignite a passion of mine to follow kind of the pursuits I have now.
Oh, that's a good question. I would say we went to a boat party for Carabana last year. And My family, they're very true to the bone, I would say. They know how to party. They know how to move. They can drink. They were outdoing me. And I was trying to keep up with my parents. And that was a very harsh reality to see. Wow, my parents can party better than I can. It was lovely.
My, my, my brother was there with his wife, my husband, my parents, and we just, we had such a good time and my cousin and, and his father was there too. So we just, we made a big family affair. We suffered the next day and we made sure we got some food in us, but I don't know if that night or, or, you know, the next day was more fun for me just kind of seeing us all rally together.
I think that is a very grounding experience because it just reminds you of, what really matters to you in life. And to me, those moments of just laughing with my parents, being able to just spend, spend time with them. My parents both hit kind of milestone birthdays this year. And I was this past year and I was able to take my mom horseback riding for the first time.
That was something she's always wanted to do in her life. And being able to kind of take some of the things I've been able to accomplish and bring that back to them has always been my, a goal of mine. I was able to just take my dad on a surprise trip to Florida to see his family out there. And that's, Just those are the things that I live for right now.
Being able to kind of spoil my parents in a way that I've wanted to do for so long.
Oh, so yeah, that was actually last November. I went, I actually, so I went with my husband and my aunt and uncle and it was a trip we've always wanted to do because, um, I just found Japan was we knew it was going to be a complete culture shock for us, completely different. And we wanted to go for two weeks and explore the country. We didn't want to see kind of only the tourist traps.
So we booked this trip with kind of a larger group and we went to a different city almost every night and sleeping on floors in different places. And just really it was we went to a monastery. So we were able to experience that. And that's where we slept on the floor.
Then we would go to just downtown seeing Tokyo and being able to see all the different car meets, going more to Osaka and the beautiful landscape there. It was just such a variety of different experiences in one country. So that's why I wanted to cover as much as I could in that one space. And then the cuisine, I'm a sushi lover. So of course I love the food there and snacks.
They have every little snack. You know how many KitKat different flavors they have? It was amazing. Really? Yeah. Oh man, there was, oh, there's just so many. And then for me, before we go into Kit Kat, I will say they have these little tuna sandwiches that they come in little triangles and they're wrapped in seaweed. And that became, it's at every gas station or rest stop.
That became my go-to snack. Like they, they have all the things I wish I could have here and the drinks are amazing.
unbelievable i'm going on and on about the food the culture itself is also really amazing though i um got to dress up as a geisha i got to do like a nice tea ceremony learn the kind of practices and the customs went on some hikes it was just it was crazy to do in two weeks we were exhausted after but i can say i felt fulfilled after that trip because i find that going to different countries with completely different scenarios and then cultures it just
takes you out of your comfort zone, but also reminds you of what you've become so accustomed to and what becomes mundane in your everyday life. Because there's certain things that you take for granted, like the practices of just greeting people there is so different from here, or just just everyday ways of communicating.
And I found that it was really, really great for me to just kind of step outside the box and see those differences.
I think that the tea ceremonies were the most interesting to me because there was such a particular way to sit down to slurp the tea to demonstrate a real appreciation for the meal in front of you. The way that you eat the little biscuits they give you and drink it. There's like a certain pattern to do things. And it's just so very polite and there's so much etiquette to it that I didn't realize.
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