Viva Frei

Conversions.

People say, like, you know...

i i realized this the other day where people say are you are you proud to be canadian like well i was born canadian you can't be proud to have been you know born into circumstances but if i make the active decision to become american then you would say yes i'm proud to be an american because as an adult i made a decision to upend our entire life move my family and adopt a spirit that is far different than what i have grown to know is your family like it is your family happy

My family that came with me, yes.

I've got some family up in Canada who, yeah, but no, my family loves it.

It took some time.

The first year we went with three kids who were young.

It took some getting used to and making new friends and they love it.

Slightly different kind of transition.

I've obviously never done it before, but, like, up against selling everything and leaving the only country you've ever known and then coming where you don't know anything.

You don't know what you need to get into school.

You don't know where the grocery stores are.

It was weird.

Never in a million years did I ever... I studied law in French in Quebec City because my aspirations were to stay in Quebec, the province, practice in French.

It's beautiful.

The country is beautiful.

The people are by and large beautiful.

It's the government that ruins everything and the government ruins much of the people as well.

Brainwashes them into calling the cops because you're not social distancing at a park and you're playing on the swings that have been...

We literally had to sneak out of our... We were breaking the COVID curfew rules.