Vancouver, I was deciding, was the city of scams.
I'd booked this house online. The listing said it was a fifteen-minute walk to the restaurant; in reality, thirty. The listing said I'd share a bathroom with one other person; in reality, four people regularly used it. With the camper, that was now five.
The house, I learned in pieces, had seven occupants, not the three the host had implied during the deposit conversation.
It was hard to fight with someone who was both lying to you and feeding you.
From Working Holiday Pregnant by Mocha Park
Job Hunting in Canada
Strangely, the postings closest to my actual experience all had 500:1 ratios. Public-sector jobs, mostly. I sent applications to about two hundred companies. None of the higher-paying ones got back to me.
The second was a remote interpreter position. Korean speakers would call hospitals or institutions in the US/Canada, and I'd join the call to interpret between English and Korean. Pregnant, working from home, this looked like the dream.
From Working Holiday Pregnant by Mocha Park
The Car Parked in Front of My House Was Broken Into
At first, it looked as if only about $100 in cash was missing. I wanted to believe that was all. Then my husband said the bag was gone. Our passports were in that bag.
Each gate I crossed turned out to have another behind it. I'd thought if I solve this thing, my life will be happy. Another worry was already standing in the next doorway.
From Working Holiday Pregnant by Mocha Park
