Hello,

This one is a very light-hearted phone conversation between myself and my two younger sisters. This one is for anyone who might be thinking of or is raising some immigrant kids. Hope you derive some value from it.

The Stats

Ages: 10 (11 on 16/6/2008) and 14

Occupations: 10 year old is in primary school, 14 year old is in high school.

The Interview

The Text Version

Opinions on Melbourne from Children(pdf version)

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Among the things covered are:

1) Making friends

2) Race and relationships

3) Cultural differences

4) The way children treat their parents

5) Is it easy to stay healthy?

6) The first thing you see when you exit Melbourne airport

7) Obesity and the girl with sugar water

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Be blessed and bless others,

Mwangi

Hi,

Mzeiya, at the risk of sounding redundant, thank you very much for reminding me the type of articles I started up this blog to write in the first place.

And so I begin a series known as:

What is the Best City to Immigrate to?

The way I will answer that question is by going city by city and talking to immigrants in as many socioeconomic and age groups as possible and asking them their opinions on:

a) Employment

b) Racism

c) The culture of the land

e) Facilities that allow someone to maintain a healthy lifestyle (if there is something I may have missed that you think is important, leave a comment below and I will add it to the list of questions).

Today’s Interviewee: Me

Considering I am an immigrant and I am the most available guest I will start with me. Below are my stats:

Age group: Early 20s

Socioeconomic status: Minimum wage employment. Old enough to be a college graduate; college dropout

Any feedback on how to improve this series and make it more useful to you is much appreciated. Enjoy

The Interview

Employment

To further illustrate just how ridiculously low unemployment is in Victoria (the federal state that Melbourne is in), check out the article below:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/08/2238909.htm

Some articles on the nursing shortage in Australia:

From the Australian Newspaper

From News Website

From Express India Website

If anyone has any more articles to submit to prove my point, please feel free to submit them. I thank you for bearing with me as I stumble through this whole podcasting thing, I think at some point I have to attend classes to learn how to slow down.

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