Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Imagine leaving everything you know behind – your home, your friends and your familiar life – and moving across the globe with your family. That’s exactly what Anislene Taveres did.

She came to Canada not just for a master’s degree, but also to start a new life. She found lessons in the most unexpected place, the forest surrounding Royal Roads.

In her International Ed Talk, the Master of Arts in Environment and Management student shares how quiet walks, the whispers of the trees and the colors of nature became her greatest teachers.

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