Andrey.F. was 23 years old when he had arrived in Australia in 2008 on the 18th of october. He had left Venezuela at 8 in the morning on the 16 of oct 2008, 2 days later he got to Australia around 3 in the afternoon. Andrey came alone so he didn’t have as much of trouble to buy the tickets and move to Australia, but it was hard for him to buy the tickets because he had to compare the different prices from each ticket. Since Andrey came alone her felt very nevus and scared to travel on his own. Andrey took a few months to move to Australia because of the trouble he had to buy the visa. A  visa is similar to a passport, where you use to move from one country another or to visit. Before Andrey had arrived in Australia, he had to go through a lot of paper work and tests to move to from his country to Australia. Andrey’s travel plan to move to Australia was from Maracaibo to Mami which is in the U.S.A then from Miami to Los Angeles then from Los Angeles to Sydney then from Sydney to Melbourne, which is where he met his other part of his family.

No plans got changed, everything was on time. When Andrey bought the visa and tickets, he got it on time. Andrey’s flights went well and he arrived on time, expect for his last one… When Andrey arrived at Sydney, he had to walk to the other airport which took a pretty long time so he lost his last flight to Melbourne, he also felt very nervous. Once Andrey arrived at the airport he had to wait 2 long hours to go on another flight that goes straight to Melbourne. When Andrey arrived his 2 brother’s family were there to pick him up. Andrey saw his brothers, nieces, nephew and sisters in law. Their names are Adelmo (brother), Enrique (brother), Vanessa (sister in law), Linda (sister in law), Camila (niece), Victoria (niece), Valeria (niece) and Alessandro (nephew). For Andrey Franco it was hard to leave his other part of his family behind. He said “it’s because you don’t have them near you any more, you don’t get to see them anymore and if you want to see them you have to travel to where they are, but to travel you need a lot of time and money”. Andrey moved to Australia because he was expecting a good opportunity on having a good life. He heard all of this from his brothers that told him that Australia has a good public transport, good education and has better opportunities on having a better life. Andrey also came here to study and to have a good future and education.

Andrey also chose Australia because his brothers had told him that Melbourne was one of the most liveable cities in the world and that Australia provides good living standard life style and better opportunities. He thinks that Australia is better now because there are better public transport, shopping centres, school, jobs, there are more places, you can learn better things, you can have a better education and more. His english has improved from 2008 to 2014. Andrey also got to know more about the culture of Australia which he enjoyed. He also said, “ there are more places and you can learn better things”. Andrey felt very excited because this would be a new challenge for him. This meant that he would have to learn a new language and culture. Andrey was also very excited because he would get to meet his other part of the family that he hasn’t seen in a lot of months. Andrey would also find exciting and difficult challenges along his journey. He thought that Australia had changed a lot but in a really good way, he than gave examples, there are more train stations, roads, jobs, opportunities, so things are changing but for the better.

Andrey said, “that Australia is very different from Venezuela because Venezuela is a fair well country, which means that the political system, social system, and the acronym system are different, but Australia is not a fair well country”. Andrey started studying accounting. Once he graduated from his university, he found a job of accounting and he continued his life from then. Andrey know has a professional job and is developing his life in Australia in good and positive way. Andrey had to leave a lot of storage behind because there are limits with luggages of how much the luggages weigh or how many you bring or what you are bringing with you. The things that Andrey couldn’t bring he left it in his old bedroom in his parents house. Andrey has gone back to Venezuela once. In 2012 in December to spend christmas with his parents. Before he came to Australia he has been to other countries such as: Italy, Spain and the U.S.A.