and so, rather than sit around and brood about it, she got a job at mcgill university, up in quebec. she packs her two daughters off. (car horns honking) >> going to montreal, canada, it's all white, predominantly, and you're having to make all new friends, and figure your way out. >> for her to be uprooted from her community at such a, a sensitive moment in anyone's upbringing, experience her teenage years in a foreign place. (car horn honking) >> she kind of was always the type that would embrace something, take it on, take it like a challenge, and battle it. >> narrator: wanda kagan became kamala's new best friend. >> she made the best out of it, which is what she did with them coming to quebec, which was french and having to go to french school, and, um, the cold weather. (laughs) ♪ ♪ she talked about the life she left behind a lot. that was another commonality we had-- my family was in america. that's actually what was so nice about our friendship, seeing how she and, and myself navigated ourselves to fit in to that, to that world, two different worlds, and, and bridge the gap b