I arrived to Canada almost 2 years ago.

We live in a small town. Before I came here I lived in a big city in the Ukraine. At times, I feel a little bit uncomfortable living in a small town. I miss seeing many people on the streets, traffic, big city.., but I have learned how to deal with it. I learned how to deal with homesickness as well. First year it was very hard and I cried a lot. Now I know, at least, what to do with these sad feelings and I can share it with anyone who may be interested.

Living in Ukraine, I was an English teacher. Here, in Canada, I decided not to continue teaching because of few reasons. I was trying to find a job the first year, but with no results. Even though I taught English in Ukraine, it's a very big difference when you arrive here and everyone speaks very fast and my language knowledge was not enough to find any good job here. I was hoping I could find a job as a Russian teacher, but who needs Russian here in a small town and who needs my English here where everyone speaks it better than I do anyway! So, I thought, I would start my own business and will operate it from home. This way, I thought I will be able to work whenever I want, I would have no boss, and I will be able to watch our kids when they come from school, etc.

I liked the idea of building web sites for profit. I did not know almost anything about the computers in general and web design in particular. Now my web design company is 1 year old, I gained some experience, but keep learning all the time and growing professionally. I must say that we did not have lots of money to spend on advertising and with big competition it was not easy to start own business. It needs LOTS of money to start a business here, as well as all the software, computers are very expensive. So, I decided I will learn everything myself. I have gotten HTML knowledge (not perfect though) and still need to learn programming. I have found very good sources where you can ask any question about programming and web design. My financial situation was not very good at all before. But now things have changed!

Thanks God!