Thiet Huynh
| First name | Thiet |
|---|---|
| Last name | Huynh |
| Country of Origin | Vietnam |
| Date of Birth | 12/12/1942 |
| Year of Arrival in Australia | 1979 |
| Submitted by | Kim Huynh |
Story
The Story of Kim Huynh and his family PART 2
(Would you be so kind as to join this with the first segment? It’s 1,000 words and I can’t cut it any further!) …
Two months later my family were interviewed by an Australian delegation and were accepted to go to Australia. We waited anxiously to leave the island of death. After 3 months we heard our names called over the loudspeaker and my family left Bidong.
We were transferred to a camp in Kuala Lumpur which was more comfortable than Bidong. On 20 Dec 1979 our names were called to go to Australia.
Our plane flew to Brisbane and then to Sydney where we were transferred to Canberra. As we looked down from the plane we could not see any houses, just tracts of grey trees and brown dirt. We could not believe that this was the capital city and thought that maybe we had boarded the wrong plane.
We were sponsored to come to Canberra by the Ainslie Church of Christ and arrived on 21 December 1979. The church minister and his wife greeted us and show us to a house in Ainslie that had been stocked with furniture and food that had been donated by the congregation. My wife, two children and I felt as though we were setting out on a new path, we were starting life over.