Dreaming Canada

Guys, have you ever dreamed something extremely hard to come true? I am dreaming something like that right now ! I live in Rome (Italy) and next year my school allows me to study abroad, i love to get to know new cultures, dip into new realities different from the one i got used to, plus i've always wanted to study somewhere subjects are taught in English (i'm seriously in love with this language !), so i can't miss an opportunity like that !
Why Canada (as you can guess from the title)? Well, actually at the beggining i didn't know wheter to pick Canada, Australia or UK. They told me not to pick UK simply because is a culture too close to ours (watching from an "Italian point of view" in fact, Uk is right there !!). Why not Australia? Australia seems to be amazing, i didn't pick it not because it is not a nice place or schools are not good, but because Canada fits better my priorities and tastes. First of all, I love cold !! I know, it's pretty strange considering I'm half brazilian, but I just love cold ! I've always dreamed to live in a cold place, maybe somewhere with snow, especially during Christmas, like the song says i've always been "dreaming of a white christmas". Canada is the great north, which place can better fit my taste?! Plus I also love the culture behind the "cold", in Canada you can easly practice winter sports (which are also very popular there) like skiing, and the ones you can play on ice like Ice-hockey or skating. Talking about that, i'd really like to try out ice-hockey, i really wanna know how it works ! Then another reason that made me choose Canada over Australia is its bilingual aspect, in Canada they speak English and French, both languages I study at school, both languages I love (i love French, and English is my favourite language), and by studying in Canada I can improve both !! I can make some subjects in English and some in French (French immersion) and of course I will also have English and French classes. Going to Canada is a great opportunity to get to know a different educational system, see how it works and why not, even make some comparisons with the italian one ! I've been checking some schools they told me to look for (once I told them about my interests and priorities) and I'm still positively shocked, canadian schools offer so many interesting subjects to learn !! And even the ones we study here in Italy, they study them better (talking about the scientific ones considering they are the ones i like, can't say the same about the humanistic ones) ! For example I can study drama, photography and psychology, subjects i can't even imagine to study here in Italy !
Plus on my free time, maybe during some kind of holiday I'd like to visit other cities of Canada (if I go, i'm staying in Okanagan) like Vancouver, Ontario, Quebec city and even adventure into the cold north territories such as Nunavut, Yukon and Northwest territory's cities. Why do i want to get to know so well Canada? First because I'm going to live there for a school year, that's becoming my home for a year, I want to know my home the better I can ;) Second because it's the country of one of my best english teacher, probably THE ONE who taught me to speak English, if it weren't for him, i probably wouldn't be here writing this ! I want to get to know his country.
But I may just be dreaming, studying an year in Canada is very expensive and I don't know if my parents can afford it, i really hope they can ! This dream may be extremely hard to come true for a simple reason: It's not up to me ! It's all up to my parents' economies ! I can't do nothing to make it happen, I just can hope for the best ... and that's exactly what I'm doing. So to my Canadian readers: Hope to see you soon :)