Moving To Australian Culture Essay

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Task 1a
If some new people from a different culture moves to my community, I would try to make them feel welcome and they could start their new life with another culture faster. I would try to make them join different groups. Different local sports groups if there is a sport there are interested in. That is a great way to find people with the same interest as yourself. I would try to communicate with the newcomer’s best I can, and make them know about our community.
Task 1b
Australia’s national day is at 26th of January. Their celebrating that on this day the first English settlement came to Australia. This day is celebrated by fireworks and good food, often barbeque. However there is some people in Australia that does not celebrate this day, the Aboriginal people. When the English settlement came to Australia the Aboriginal people where already there. Their lost their land to the Englishmen and their rights. So most Aboriginal people call the day the “Invasion Day”, “Day of Mourning” or “Survival Day”. The 26th of January has been the biggest
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Today I am moving to a different place, a different country, different city, different school and new people. My mother said that it is not so much different in England than Norway. Is not much different!? They have another languish! Yeah they have, but you had English at school from first class, she had said. It is true, but I had have the grade two in English the last three years at school. In the beginning, I actually thought that moving to England could be kind of cool, but that was about 2 years ago. I did not thought they actually was thinking of moving. Now when I am stand here with my cloths and stuff packet and the house is sold, this is not cool anymore. I don’t want to move from all my friends. My father looked on my and gave a little smile. There is no surprise that he is happy, it was because his jobs that we had to move. “Come on everybody, lets drive to the airport” yelled my mom from the

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