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Natalie Narayan
12th November 1992
Living in Seoul (interview conducted in Singapore)
Previous Residences (in chronological order): New Zealand, Sydney (Australia), Singapore
Student
I want to be very rich and have a successful career, be happy have job satisfaction, have my happily ever after. I want to do everything I've set out to do like studying and living overseas. When you live overseas you experience so many different cultures, you want to see more and more. You've become exposed. We are so lucky, I've been able to travel and experience cultures that others can’t. I don't feel the need to move, I'm happy with my life at the moment. I've lived in Singapore for so long though; I want to experience something new. Change happens, you don't always dive into it, you're hesitant, wanting to stay in your comfort zone but is usually works out to be the best choice for you in life.
Citizen
Mia Visser
2nd April 1986
Living in Singapore (currently between jobs)
Previous Residences (in chronological order): South Africa, Perth, Melbourne, Singapore, Adelaide, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Adelaide (Australia)
Hotelier
I’ve grown more culturally aware, I move every seven years, I’m in the mind set that I’m always moving, its become second nature. I just pack up and go, not having to worry about culture shock. I’ll keep traveling, I want to see the world, meet new exciting and interesting people and gain a bucket load of qualifications. I hope not to be restricted in life and just be able to follow my dreams, experience the world. My goal is to see every country in the world, as they say, the world is your oyster. I think I’ll only settle down when I’m 35.
Jack Wallis
21st December 1989
Living in Aldgate (South Australia)
Student
I want to be famous, respected or perhaps infamous. I want a CD with my name on it. I really want to make a name for myself. Yet, I think I’ll always come back to Adelaide. I’ve never left Adelaide so I really want to travel to all the big cities, New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. I don’t want to study. Who does? No one does at university. I’m doing screen writing but I’m mainly just interested in music. If my band breaks up, like all do, I’ll do something else but I just really want to do the music. I have no obvious route in my life but I’m not scared.
Hannah Fitzgerald Dolling
11th December 1992
Living in Little Hampton (South Australia)
Student
I can't really tell the differences in myself. I hope to become a more confident, involved person, more accomplishments under my belt. I want to immigrate to the UK, travel everywhere and see everything. I want to, but I probably won't, study at Cambridge and be safe in the knowledge I am a genius. My father traveled and experienced different cultures so I want to, I've been to Asia, Europe and New Zealand but I want to see more. I would backpack, but preferably not as I like to shower. I need to get away. I want to get out of Adelaide, Adelaide's a hole, and people are irrelevant. I have no idea is I am stable and settled in life, it's a bit depressing, isn't it? I'm settled enough, it's difficult to know if I'm happy, I have not lived life. I can't make changes to my life, you can't choose what you want in your future anyway.
Miki Nagai
25th April 1992
Living in Singapore
Previous Residences (in chronological order): Tokyo, Chiba (Japan), Los Angeles (USA)
Student
I just want a normal, slow life, I don’t plan to travel overseas that much. I want to go back home to Japan, go to uni, get married, work for a few years. I want to be a mum and just have a quiet life. Perhaps travel to Hawaii and Korea and because of going to the Australian school, travel to Australia, I’m too lazy, I like staying in one spot. The fact is, I’ve been moved so many times in my life I just want to stop moving around. Although, I am happy with my life right now and where I am, I am happy with the people who are around me.
Simon Michalski
22nd January 1986
Living in Aldgate (South Australia)
Previous Residences: Zimbabwe, Harare
Student
I learnt how to talk to girls, choose which girls will talk to me and know where to find these girls; hence I know all the important things in life. I definitely want to travel, for holidays and study, but not to immigrate. I'd travel to South Africa, especially because it's my hometown. I’d travel to Africa, Asia and Europe. It’s the escapism idea, to get out of Adelaide. I am happy though, I have no obvious changes to make to my life. I know where I am going; I have an obvious path in physiotherapy rehabilitation. I don't believe in wanting to change what I have in life right now.
Caroline Mansueto
26th January 1985
Living in Aldgate (South Australia)
Student/ Food Attendant
I've had the most changes in my life in the past week, I'm moving away from home and left my tertiary schooling, I'm at the point in my life where I don't know what I want, I'm just working and living. I'm going through a lot of changes; the only constant thing is my relationship with Simon. I want to be happy in the next few years and be comfortable in a job, be comfortable enough to be able to travel overseas. I've never been overseas; I want to see something that's not Adelaide. I'm trapped in a small environment. I want to go everywhere, Africa, Asia, South America, I want to go to Malta because of my father.. I would even live overseas. I have the aspirations of a stay at home mother, I want to have a family one day, but not right now. I'm happy in life, more or less.
Bronte Morel
8th December 1992
Living in Singapore
Previous Residences: Canberra, Queensland, Sydney (Australia)
Student/ Babysitter
I want to go everywhere in the world! Winter wonderlands, beaches in Hawaii, I want to live in Hawaii, I’ve just always wanted to. I don’t really feel the need to move or get away, I more feel the need to be with people. I want to be able to help people, work in an orphanage or be a preschool teacher, I love being around people. I am a hundred percent happy in life and I’m always going to be happy. As long as I have people around me I am happy.
Consuelo Cofre
1st May 1993
Living in Singapore
Previous Residences: Santiago (Chile)
Student
Living overseas has improved my English, I’ve become more mature, even if you can’t tell and I’ve met more people, I’ve gained memories I will never forget. At the beginning I didn’t want to move, I’d miss people and friends but I guess everything is for a reason and it didn’t turn out to be the bad in the end. I’m happy I moved. I still want to travel more, go to places I haven’t had a chance to. I want to go to Nepal and Cambodia, I’d like to somehow help the conditions there or Europe as I have never been there before. I’d like to live overseas again but I’d rather stay in Singapore and finish my schooling, I like Singapore a lot but If I could change one thing I’d change the weather, then it would be a pretty perfect country for me.
Stephanie Fenech
16th November 1992
Living in New South Wales (interview conducted in Singapore)
Previous Residences: Sydney (Australia), Singapore
Student
If I was asked if I wanted to travel overseas before I actually lived overseas, I would’ve said no, I’d just have stayed in Australia. Now its just the way of life. I plan to travel more in life, when I graduate I want to do six months of traveling around the world. I’d probably do university in Sydney but I don’t want to settle down straight away. I want to travel the world. It’s an experience and you find it’s so different from Australia; you can make friends from all over the world. At this moment I like my life, I am settled but soon I will be moving again, I’m hoping it won’t take too long to settle in again. In life I am a happy person, I like my life.
Roxan Calvo
11th June 1993
Living in Singapore
Previous Residences (in chronological order): Antwerp (Belgium), Paris (France), London (England), Perth (Australia)
Student
Living in a different country I’ve learnt to value friendship more. Everyone’s always leaving, I need to have friends and enjoy the time I have with them. I do feel the need to move, because everyone’s always leaving I don’t always want to be the one left behind. It has changed me living overseas. If I hadn’t lived overseas I’d be stuck in Belgium like everyone else with these same traditional views. I think everything happens for a reason. I believe that.
Evan Cooper
15th June 1992
Living in Singapore
Previous Residences: Wellington (New Zealand)
Student
I’ve matured mentally by living overseas and become more socially outgoing person. In life more or less I want to be a famous musician. I want to get my musical skills up to a level where I can perform. I the music plan fails I’ll move back to New Zealand for study. I want to have the freedom to decide my education and the things that I want to do. There’s always this stress of having to meet other peoples expectations.
Georgia Barnes
9th November 1992
Living in Sydney (Australia- interview conducted in Singapore)
Previous Residences (in chronological order): Sydney, Singapore, London (England), Singapore
Student
When I was seven I moved for the first time in my life, I’ve continued moving in life ever since but it’s not permanent. Traveling creates you to be less closed minded. I really enjoy traveling, being able to see new things. I feel the need to move but I do like having a house and knowing that I’ll be there for a while. I’m sort of happy in life at the moment; I want to know who I am. as I’m leaving soon, I’ll have to come out of my comfort zone, which scares me, I haven’t lived in Australia for so long and I don’t know what it will be like.
Daphne Suherman
9th June 1992
Living in Singapore
Previous Residences: Medan (Indonesia)
Student
I don’t feel that I belong in Singapore. Singapore is too urban. If I was to travel I’d travel to Rome or somewhere with big open spaces. Living overseas has changed me a lot, I moved when I was seven and it was a completely new experience for me, I was a complete stranger to it. In a way I am glad I moved country. Indonesia has many riots and I think my parents are glad we moved too. There are many advantages and disadvantages to living overseas, although, I can’t imagine not living in Indonesia, I will always go back there, either to take over the family business or to be a lawyer. Indonesia is my home, Indonesia is where I belong.
Aidin Langford
28th February 1986
Living in Flinders Hall (South Australia)
Previous Residences in chronological order): Indonesia, Singapore
Biology Student
I have no real ambitions; get a good job in science, being a mad scientist would be great. I've lived overseas, so I'd definitely want to travel overseas, study overseas would be good but a job would be even better, wherever really. There’s only so far you can plan ahead. I don't really feel the need to move, I'd obviously want to go Singapore again, for family but there’s not this overwhelming feeling of needing to. Being an expat you find yourself slightly separated from society, so then you definitely want to travel. You've experienced it before and you're more culturally aware. You know what's out there.
Nell Olsson Young
25th August 1992
Living in Singapore
Previous Residences: Melbourne (Australia)
Student
I didn’t want to move at first, I was happy where I was and didn’t think it was a good idea. Moving means you always have to find new friends and in the end you can’t be bothered. It’s a really hard process having to make new friends. If I was to move back to Australia it will never be the same as it was before the move. People have changed a lot and I’ve changed a lot too. It would be hard to get along with people completely different from the people I used to know. The move has worked out okay in the end, I’ve experienced new cultures and seen new things. As my father said when he was trying to convince me to move to Singapore, I’m “broadening my horizons”.
Kirra Draper
4th March 1992
Living in Singapore
Dubbo (NSW), Coonamble (NSW), Ayers Rock National Park (NT), Katherine (NT), Port Headland (WA), Kalgoorlie (WA), Melbourne (VIC).
Student
I'm more open to trying new things now. Moving from place to place has really impacted my life, the people I befriend and usually hang out with really influence my personality and lifestyle. I'm still the same on the inside, however. It just gives me more things in life to consider. Of course I’m going to mature more, that's only to be expected. At the moment I’m quite content with where I am. I’ve lived all over Australia and I hate new beginning, I’m terribly bad at starting all over again so I hope to stay in Singapore to finish Year 12 but as soon as I’ve finished school, lets just say, I am outta here! I’m hoping to study mythology in uni, travel to places of deep religious significance like Egypt, Rome and Greece but I think my real calling in writing. I want to write at least one fiction novel in my life. I don’t think I’ll ever be happy in life if I don’t write something.
Kerry Michalski Russell
20th May 1987
Living in Aldgate, South Australia
Previous Residences: Zimbabwe, Harare (South Africa)
Tech Support
I have no real dreams, no hopes or aspirations, if I could change one thing it would be to get a bigger room with a couch and a sound system. I don’t want to make a name for myself. I just want to get money, buy a house and travel the world. I want to holiday everywhere. It’s a fun experience, maybe I would backpack, I haven’t tried yet. I just want to move around, I’m used to moving around, but I don’t want to move around forever. I think immigration should be banned. I wouldn’t live overseas, I’d stay in Adelaide . Adelaide is good, its green, its nice and its home.
Kelly Rogers
7th May 1992
Living in New South Wales (interview conducted in Singapore)
Previous Residences: (in chronological order) Australia, England, Seoul (South Korea), Singapore
Student
I definitely plan to travel, I would work in England, I know people there and it's the best place. I’ve lived in. My dream is to open a bookstore there, but I don’t think that will happen, I need to be more motivated. I would go into business, it's what my father does, I'd like to settle down, have family, but I don't know if I will I think I’m happy with my life, I'm not ultra, mega happy but I'm content. I wouldn't change that I've moved, I would change maybe things I've said in the past. I can't imagine not moving. I'm not sure if there's the need to move, moving was more how I got out of problems, out of stress, I always felt I could move.
Andre Michalski
12th August 1990
Living in Aldgate (South Australia)
Student
I want to be a doctor, I want to help people. I wouldn’t mind studying overseas or holidaying around the world. I would travel all over Europe and China. My family has a history of movement so I will eventually track down the family history in Poland, England and South Africa. I’d also go to Singapore again, Singapore is hell good. Go and see the spewing lion again. I think I’d stay in Adelaide though. If I can I would live overseas, I guess living overseas wouldn’t be too bad. I have a decent life, I’m happy but I want to move and travel. I’m not going to stay in Adelaide my entire life.
Jessica Leppert12th January 1993
Living in Bentleigh (Australia)
Previous Residences: Melbourne (Australia), Singapore
Student
At first I didn’t want to leave Melbourne, I didn’t realize I hated Melbourne until I actually left but in the end moving to Singapore did work out. I have a connection to people there. Generally I’ll just complete my schooling in Australia and then get a job. I don’t think I could be one of those people that at the end of their schooling just get up and take six months off traveling, I’m just too lazy. If I had the choice whenever I wanted to stay or leave, I’d probably just stay.
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