Halifax West High School and Carmen Radulescu

: The school YMCA immigrant support worker knows what it like to feel isolated and alone, according to The Chronicle Herald. She understands culture shock. When one of the new Canadians attending Halifax West High School asks Carmen Radulescu for help, the empathy is automatic. She felt the bafflement a person can experience upon hearing the Hoser Canadian accent for the first time. Immigration by the numbers For a year it felt like a mountain, but slowly I started to climb. For a year, I cried every day, Radulescu says of 1996, when the trained engineer arrived in Halifax from Romania with her young daughter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.