My First Winter In Canada


   Before to  move to Canada I had limited imagination about the country. For me Canada was country of  maple syrup, hockey, many forests, extremely cold and snowy winter and a lot of bears around. But now when I am in Canada I would tell my  impression about Canadian winter.
   I moved to Canada from Ukraine in September 2015. It was the right time to adjust to my first winter here.   Kind of I was prepared to the cold and snowy winter and I brought with me the winter coat, boots, gloves and hat to keep me warm. In Ukraine I lived on the north-eastern part of the country where we have  humid continental climate  with moderately cold, snowy and long winters which lasting about four-five month.  The coldest month are January and February. The average winter temperature is around -10C, but sometimes temperature drops to -20C. Here, in Canada, I live on the western part of British Columbia, 500km far away from Pacific Ocean. Our small village has a sunny winters with lots of snowfall and with average temperatures about -10C -13C. Therefore comparing Ukrainian and Canadian winter I would say the winters are similar in general. Only one thing what I noticed  Canadian winter is more dry then Ukrainian because here is low humidity.
   The most interesting and wonderful parts of Canadian winter for me was nature and wildlife. I have never seen such a beautiful nature like  here in winter. I have never seen so many wildlife  approaching very close to the house in searching of food.
   Also, the most exciting part of Canadian winter was snowshoes. I have seen showshoes here first time in my life and I got some experience on snowshoesing. As I live in the private house with a huge property so showshoesing is very important part of winter activities here. Seems everybody has snowshoes in our small village!
     I am happy to live in the country with the similar climate that I had before. Probably, I would miss the winter, if I lived somewhere in a warm country. I really enjoed my first winter in Canada with lots of snow, wildlife, snowshoesing, nature and lots of sunny days.