CALGARY -- A lack of social interaction in the midst of a global pandemic was one of Madeleine Wakefield's largest concerns. "It’s kind of like a period of exile," she said. "When you go into exile you can see that as a waiting period or as a time when you keep progressing, so even at this stage in my life I wanted to progress." The 73-year-old Calgary woman has recently been trying to find new ways to challenge herself. She took the pandemic as an opportunity to review her French and begin learning the Korean language by enrolling online at Calgary’s Berlitz Language Centre.