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And honestly that's what I love about Canada and why we are the best country in the world. We're a mosaic rather than a melting pot. Each culture that comes here contributes something to the Canadian Zeitgeist that gets disseminated to everyone else, like spicing up an otherwise boring W.A.S.P existence.

When my family moved here from Portugal, they managed an apartment building in order to have a place to live while my father worked construction and my mother was a housekeeper. (Yeah...yeah...I know...it doesn't get any more Portuguese than that)

Anyway, I was just a toddler and the family was immediately befriended by the older Ukrainian lady next door and we soon became a part of her extended family for everything from christmas to birthdays, etc. My first memories are of toddling down the hall in my pjamas first thing in the morning to "Auntie Anne's" apartment. She was more my grandmother than my biological grandmothers who lived in Portugal at the time.

Through them, we learned kaiser. My mother learned how to make peirogies, cabbage rolls, etc...

We are without a doubt the most Ukrainian Portuguese family to have ever existed and I love it.

Sorry...got nostalgic there for a moment. Auntie Anne passed away decades ago and I still think about her sometimes.