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From January 2015, she started to practice leetcode questions; she trains herself to stay focus, develops "muscle" memory when she practices those questions one by one. 2015年初, Julia开始参与做Leetcode, 开通自己第一个博客. 刷Leet code的题目, 她看了很多的代码, 每个人那学一点, 也开通Github, 发表自己的代码, 尝试写自己的一些体会. She learns from her favorite sports – tennis, 10,000 serves practice builds up good memory for a great serve. Just keep going. Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Case study: How to help a young immigrant in three days?

May 19, 2019

Introduction

It is the first time I have to push myself to learn how to help a new immigrant to adapt and learn Canada in three days. My nephew landed in May 15, 2019 as a new immigrant and left on May 19, 2019 and went back to China.

Case study

I took three days to learn how to help the young Chinese to do all the paper work as a new immigrant. And also I had chance to put together some analysis and figured out how to help him. I am the sponsor, and also I need to learn how to help my nephew and give out my advice on a few areas.

I chose to show how to be frugal and it is hard for me to practice. I made mistakes and then I found the issue, and I asked the chance to fix the problem.

Let me document my experience in the following.

Corrections

After I opened the account for my nephew with my deposit of $3,000 Canadian dollars to his new account, in half an hour, I heard that he talked about purchase of a IPhone in Canada top brand latest version. I noticed that I made mistake. He does not consider what is his need and what is his want. He does not care about anything in Canada.

I have to figure out ways to take fund back. If there is need to pay rent or tuition to adapt Canada, then I should consider to support. Otherwise, I am supporting an impulsive purchaser.

I spent $1859.25 Canadian dollars to cover his airline round trip, three day rents, and other expenses. It is $600 dollar for a day. That is too expensive. My nephew argued that it worth for him, $1,800 dollar for three days. He actually took money from me and his parent both. He is a not-grown-up financially. He does not count the cost for me to file the whole application for his permanent resident.

Actionable Items

I also have to work on my decision making process. I should carefully calculate the expense and make sure that I calculate the risk as well. I should not come out $3,000 dollars from no where. I should add $500 dollars and then go up for another $500 for specific reasons.

I also did write a blog to document that I should have been able to save the airport parking fee waiting outside the airport instead. Here is the blog.