(1/2) In 1974, I came straight from Mexico City – one of the biggest metropolis in the world – to literally the back of Bourke! At my interview with the Australian embassy, the Consul asked me where I was going, and I said, ‘Oh, Bourke.’ I remember he stopped writing, turned to me, and said, ‘Bourke???’
My parents were from a peasant background. But they had come to the city to find better education for us. We're very blessed that one of my dad's cousins gave us scholarships at a bilingual school she owned . . .