When we first arrived in Western Australia, I sensed a whole new world and environment. It seemed kind of foreign to me, as I was used to the busy streets of Melbourne.
When we first arrived in Western Australia, I sensed a whole new world and environment. It seemed kind of foreign to me, as I was used to the busy streets of Melbourne. It seemed as though I had just arrived in Africa. Along the dusty sand I witnessed a one legged man hitting his dog with his crutches, my two children were beside themselves with laughter when the man eventually fell over. To keep my children alert of the sun I told them a few white lies about a disease called “boiling brain.” It was a huge success as their naïve little minds could not comprehend that I was trying to keep them out of the sun. My sun hard a hard time at school during the first few days as he was wearing sandals. The school children and the teacher were not used to seeing people wearing shoes to school and used it as an opportunity to poke fun at my poor sun. I still persisted with making him wear the sandals as a safety precaution. The people in Western Australia are different from Melbourne. The amount of dark skinned people is a lot higher over in the West. Here people don’t need to lock their doors unlike in Melbourne. That’s a positive out of the move I suppose. After a while I had adjusted well to the move. The hot temperature seemed normal to me now and my family seemed to be very happy and settled. I was now happy to call the West home.