Quality of Life After Migration

While I was searching for my blog ranking at google, I stumbled upon this interesting thesis about the comparative study between Filipino and Vietnamese migrants in Australia. It's all about their quality of life after migration. I found it very educational especially for those who are seriously contemplating to move permanently to Australia and to migrants who are still adjusting here.

click this link: acqol.deakin.edu.au/theses/Jehobo.doc
by Debbie Jehodo.

I totally agree with this thesis saying that the level of proficiency of migrant's English plays an important factor on his mental, physical and material well being. Also the ability of the migrant to establish social support and gain friends tends to be very helpful in the well being of most migrants as it avoid one from stress and depression.

Hail over Melbourne

It was a freezing and raining sunday afternoon when I noticed a heavy drops falling on our roof. It was not a usual sound of a rain drop but something seems to be in it. We went out to find out and we were so thrilled to see droplets of ice falling on the cement and on the roof of our car. It definitely hailed in Melbourne. The top of the car's boot was so white with hailstones and so are the grasses. My family really enjoyed the view as it is not so frequent that it happens.

It was a nice experience to feel on my palm as I clumped the hailstones together. They were just pea size that's why it was still fun to see them as they don't cause any big damage when they fall off. For migrant's information though, hailstones could vary their sizes from the smallest of 6 mm to as big as 128 mm. When they go beyond the small sizes, they could be really damaging to car's or any property's roof and to a person's head.

You can always watch out for a possibility of a hail through weather forecasts if you want to see one. We just hope that it will always bring in a pea size hailstones rather than a bigger tennis ball size hailstones.