International Students in Darwin

Our guest Edward Christan Ocampo is an important community member of the Filipinos in Darwin but he was looking after everyone during the Coronavirus lock down. Furthermore, he explained us how he's chasing he's dreams and how he became part of the Top end wedding movie.

Kashif is studying currently emergency and disaster management. Furthermore, he's very engaged in the community and is also volunteering for the Red Cross.

Elnaz is an amazing woman who came a few years ago with her husband to Australia. After doing cancer research in Malaysia she decided to make her PHD here in Darwin.

Many people were asking for a shorter podcast and her it is. This interview with Luci is short and informative. It was good to talk with her about the beginning in Darwin, but it was also interesting to hear some opinion about the situation in Hong Kong from someone who was born and raised there.

Yogi came to Australia to prove people in his home country wrong. After a difficult time in the beginning he started to focus on the positive side of life. Additionally Yogi started to learn from all the bad experiences in his life until he found many business opportunities in Darwin NT.

We'll give you in this episode a few updates what we were doing and developing during the COVID 19 time. Additionally we had some special questions for each other.

Adele came to Australia as backpacker and she was enjoying it until she had to made the decision, start to study in Darwin or somewhere else. Nowadays Adele is very busy with the school and her job in the Department of Trade, business and innovation.

Yabín came three months ago from Mexico City to Darwin, a huge difference for him. But he loves the city of Darwin and he met a lot of new friends. Additionally Yabín has a knowledge about the Maya's, the meaning of spirituality and he's a passionate and great DJ.

Safina Tam came as a backpacker to Darwin. As many others she enjoyed the first few months here having fun and enjoying life. After a while she decided to stay here and study something that has a lot of potential for the future.

Paul Wachira is an incredible individual. Born and raised in Kenya, Paul decided to leave his home to provide his family a better future. Step by step his reaching towards his goal. What that exactly is and how we all can help him to make this come true can you hear in this episode.

Simone came to Darwin to learn English. Like many others he picked this place because of the weather and the migration law's. It's not his first time in Australia, but he'll definitely stay longer this time.

This is the second episode with a person that is not an international student any more but has many things to do with international students. Ben is a very friendly and inspiring person who came five years ago to Darwin and has accomplished a lot of thing's since then.

This is a special episode for us, because the interview wasn't with an international student for the first time. But Tad is someone who knows a lot about the life of an international student in Darwin and she helped many people to start in a good way here in Darwin.

Our guest Ahad is a students ambassador and has already won several awards. In addition, he wants to inspire many people with his story to take the next step. He also tells us why he calls himself Sunday and much more.

We talked in this episode with a 18 years young international student from India.

Francesca and Denis talk today with Barbara, it's already her second time in Darwin. In what other places she lived before and what special experience she had with the Aboriginal community can you find out in this episode.

We're talking in our first episode about how we met, why we came to Darwin and our motivation for the podcast.