“The plan was just to study and then go somewhere else. But staying in Montreal, you learn a lot of things. Like, it’s not a dead, slow city. I make a joke with my friends. The first time I moved here, they keep asking me what do I miss about the Philippines? And I say well, Manila, particularly. I always say in Manila at 7:00 in the morning, there are already tons of people pissed about something. And you never see it Montreal.”