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Migrant Experience, Notes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Wasn't an easy start, with the family not being able to financially afford school equipment (uniform, school books)
      - Anh going for school captain ‘If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you’ve given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure’
- - - - Death of his fathers brother, due to shady business getting the boat
        
        'Getting your hands on a boat was an extremely risky busiiness.' (9)
      - Arriving to an island in the Malaysian archipelago after being rescused by a german fishing boat
        
        Transportation to Australia
        
        Sufferings at sea; the pirates attack (two)
        
        Dehydration and starvation
        
        '...the dehydration and the vomiting that [loc] started hallucinating and mumbling incoherent thoughts.' [19]
        
        'Much of our food had deteriorated and our water supply was down to almost nothing, but we had survived.' (20
        
        Inhumane circumstances
        
        'Forty people on a nine by two and a half metre fishing boat' (15)
        
        'Angry gret storm clouds and the wind whipped waves into heaving swells.' (15)
        
        'Thank god we're all till alive.' (18)
        
        '[the pirates] took everything,'
        
        'It was too much. We stood there in silent and numb, like sheep awaiting slaughter.' (22)
        
        '..dangled the baby over the side of the boat, threatening to throw the infant in.' (23) that baby is Khoa
  - - - Story begins in 'Dowtain Saigon, 1917.'
    - - '...properganda was that [the camps] would learn about the new way of life they would experience under the communist goverment.' (4)