I was born in El Salvador and had a very happy childhood, but when the civil war started in the 80s, my family migrated to Miami, Florida. Six years later, we returned, but found it hard to get used to living there again, as the war had not ended. My parents then found out that we could apply to migrate to Australia, which we didn’t know much about, aside from Crocodile Dundee, a National Geographic article, and INXS and Midnight Oil videos!
I was expecting that Brisbane would be like Miami, but it was very different. It was very . . .