Initially, I came to Australia just to study English for 6 months. But my brother was just about to start uni in Colombia and I still had a year to go in my IT degree, and I knew it would be too much financially for my parents to have 2 kids at uni at the same time, so I decided to stay here for a while to take the pressure off. And I was able to help them sometimes by sending money.
I had a job working in a flower importation business, just cutting the flowers and placing them in . . .