My father’s Australian and my mother’s Brazilian. They met when he travelled to South America to work as a Christian missionary. Six days later, he proposed, and 28 years later, they’re still together. When I was 15, they decided to move from Brazil to Toowoomba, in Queensland.
I wasn’t that keen on coming to be honest, as I didn’t want to leave my friends. It took me a few months to adapt – I’d get headaches all the time from trying to understand English at school, even though I had been speaking it at home . . .