Shah Sharifi: Public Transport

Afghanistan Dept: Usually it works. He learned subway etiquette by watching TTC commuters as they quietly listened to music on earphones and did not make eye contact with strangers. In Afghanistan, people on public transport are boisterous, according to The Star. Sometimes the tactic doesn t work. Dec. 25 was his first-ever Christmas but when he wandered out of his 21st-floor North York apartment to see how this famous Christian holiday was celebrated, he was surprised to see deserted streets and sayed Shah Sharifi has discovered a simple strategy for figuring out the Canadian way of doing things during the six months since the former translator for the Canadian military in Afghanistan made this country his home: just observe Canadians and copy them. Life here is like watching a movie. I watch the movie and copy it, said Sharifi, 24. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.