![]() ![]() The self-discipline you develop in your university years will pay off tenfold in the future. READ: 10 things I wish I’d known in my first year of university Take advantage of research opportunities Pratt professor of Canadian literature, University of Toronto I started out as a Black Nova Scotian, but became Africadian thanks to that transplantation and uprooting experience. Not only did I become an amateur expert on the history and the geography, all that curative research served to inspire my first book of poetry, Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues (1983), and continues to inform much of my scholarship and creative writing. My response to this homesickness or nostalgia or even alienation was to read voraciously everything the Dana Porter Arts Library had pertaining to “Sweet Home” Nova Scotia. ![]() Although Nova Scotia and Ontario are more similar than, say, France and China, I was still astonished by some subtle differences that made me miss my Africadian (African-Nova Scotian) community. ![]() I know that I did when I left Halifax to attend the University of Waterloo in September 1979. If you’re attending university in a distant city, expect to feel excitement in meeting new people and forging new friendships, but also to experience some homesickness. ![]()
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