Safiyo

=Safiyo= Hello. Everyone. My name is Safiyo. I came from Somalia. I was born in Baidoa and I grew up in Baidoa. My mother and my father died in Somalia when I was two years old. I never saw them but I have a lovely family with seven members three brother and four sisters. I have only one brother with me here in Australia I ‘m so happy to have him. I left Somalia and moved to Kenya when Somalia collapsed in July 2008. I lived in Kenya for three years. Kenya is a good country and has good weather. When I lived in Somalia I felt so sad because people don’t have any freedom. So now I’m happy to live in Australia because my life has changed in Australia. I finally arrived in my new home in Brisbane. I can’t believe I have been here eleven months already. I had a good flight, considering it was the first time I have evemedia type="file" key="safiyo video.mp4"r flown. I survived it but it was a little long. I really didn’t know what to expect. I watched a lot of movies and listened to music. I tried to sleep but it was too anxious and nervous. On my first day in Brisbane I went out for a walk. Everything was new to me I saw a lot of houses with beautiful gardens, I liked the city. It was clean and it wasn’t crowded. The streets are so much wider than our narrow ones. What amazes me is how people drive so carefully here.

I lived with my aunt for more than 6 months but now I live in West End on my own. I like Brisbane weather and people. I really hope to find a job after I finish school because it is important to me. I like chatting on Facebook with my friends and family, my favourite colours are pink, red, yellow orange and purple. I’m a Muslim, and my culture celebrates Ramadan every year. Ramadan is an important religious celebration in Somalia and it is a Muslim tradition all of the people in Somalia are Muslim and it is celebrated in the middle of the year and goes for 30 days, it is a special time where Muslims only eat during the night and never during the day. When Ramadan finishes everyone is happy and everyone wears new clothes. Everyone goes to the mosque to pray. After prayer finishes, everyone, all our family and friends, visit and we eat a lot of different food, Halawa ,biscuits, cakes, coffee, tea and others during.