Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I came from Kenya to study, so I can get a good job and make a good living. In my country there is a lot of pressure on young people to be successful at a young age.
I am 25 and already many of my generation have good jobs and money. So my biggest challenge is catching up with my peers. I am a Muslim, so it is expected that a man of my age would be married and on the way to owning a house and having children.
I am still studying, so I am not in a position to marry. I really want to marry, but not until I have finished my engineering degree and have a good job. There are a lot of students from Kenya who have come here to make a better life for themselves.
Some of them have been here not much longer than me and are doing very well. So you are always comparing yourself to them. In Kenya it is only people who have good connections who do well.
If you don’t have those connections, life will be hard. My family didn’t have those connections, so they sent me to Perth to study. I also have a cousin who has been here for a long time, so that has been helpful.
I like Perth — it’s a very nice place — but I do miss Kenya. It is more relaxed there. On the road nobody really follows the rules like they do here.
And I miss the weather in Africa. I hate winter. The next few months are going to kill me.
I have to be honest with you — I am a simple man. If in ten years I have a wife, a couple of kids, a steady job and e.
