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5/05/2011 Why did I come to Australian? Hello everyone! How are you going? I'm Ko Oo. I'm 34 years old. I'm a single father. My nationality is Myanmar. I was born in Burmese. When I grew up I started school. l left school 5 years after. When I was 14 there was a big boycott in my country. Later the government caught everyone. Therefore I ran to neighbours in Thailand. In Thai I lived a long time, for 15 years, maybe more.

When I stayed in Thailand I did many different jobs. Jobs were very hard because sometimes Thai bosses cheated some money and sometimes Thai policeman caught me because we lived in Thai ilegally but it was no problem. My wife and I tried to do different jobs. In 2005 she had a pregnancy and her son was born. 2 months later she died. Therefore I suffered. I looked after my son and then I did jobs again. Those times were hard but I tried to do everything but it was not enough for my son because he ha d to drink milk powder ﻿which was very expensive. In 2005 I had to tell someone. She was an Australian doctor and she helped me to fill in the UNHCR form. All of the forms she completed and then we moved in to the camp.

In 2005 my son and I went to live legally in the refugee camp. We live d there for 5 years. In there some people were very disappointed in me because many Karen people were very difference but I tried to be toleran t. After that we came to Australia. I was s o happy because the goverment is very good.

My volunteer s' name s are Peter Jones and Kaye Jones. They are very lovely A ustralian s and like my parent s. They give me friendship and they help me so everything is done. Something they come to my house and ask me, what do you need? So I 'm very happy living in A ustralia. I enjoy living in Australia. Next year I will be looking for work for future. I am so happy because nobody is afraid.

I would like to thank the Polytechnic and all of the teacher s because all the teacher s ........

Hi Ko Oo, I really need to read this story with you to correct it. During computer time, please come to see me and we can go over it together. Perhaps you can try to correct some words that are underlined. 'I' always needs a capital letter. Suzanne

My School Holiday During the f irst weekend we are just sta y ed at home. During the second weekend my son and __i__ went to many different place s with my Volunteer. On