Ep. #40 Australia with Frances Sommerhof: Don't Worry; Be Happy
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Ron Klutho talks to Frances Sommerhof from Australia!
MUSIC: I Still Call Australia Home with Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, Troye Sivan, the Australian Girls Choir, the National Boys Choir, and the Gondwana Choir
Next week Ron will talk about the 1983 Beirut Bombing
Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL
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0:00 SEG 1 - The meaning of the song 'I Still Call Australia Home' | Growing up in Perth, Western Australia | Parents are from Portugal | Getting married by proxy | Parents lived in Fremantle | Having nuns as teachers | Thoughts about America before moving here | American TV shows | Working at Young Australia League and then the bank | The Portuguese community in Perth | Were immigrants accepted in Australia?
17:52 SEG 2 - Immigration in Australia | There are only so many VISAs a year | Meeting her future husband | Culture shock after 2 years of waiting to come to America | Slang | How she got here and working as a personal assistant | Being a private remitter that helps people register vehicles | Going back to visit Australia | Retiring to Australia
32:30 SEG 3 - Her 23-year-old daughter | Her daughter joined the National Guard as a permanent resident | Losing her accent | Australia is part of the British Commonwealth | Aborigine people | Strange foods like Vegemite | Fluffernutter | Anzac biscuits | Lamington sponge cake | sports | Where should tourists go in Australia | Portuguese restaurants in Perth | Portuguese communities in America | The Blessing of the Fishing Fleet Celebration | The best and worst part of living in America | What feels like home? | Any words of wisdom for Americans
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