Australia

Abstract

This chapter chronicles Naw Sheera's experiences in Australia, where she and her family moved to make a fresh start. The most important thing she wanted to achieve in Australia was to become fluent in English. She really wanted to study it because everyone in Australia speaks English and she wanted to be able to communicate with other people. She reasoned that if she could speak very well, she could talk with her neighbors and tell them about the Bible. Indeed, English became pivotal to her everyday life and interactions in Australia, which she considers as a markedly different experience from living in Burma or Thailand.