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Summary Of Chapter 3 Of Anh's Family
Chapter 3 is about Anh Do’s family got r by the German, the German ship took them to Palau
Bidong refugee camp which located on an island in the Malaysian archipelago. They made some friends in the refugee camp, they traded travel stories between other refugees. Soon, they knew about Australia and they got offer a sanctuary by the Australia government. As soon as they arrived in Sydney, they received couple bags of clothes for the whole family from St Vincent de Paul the opportunity shop. A little translation mistake was made by the opportunity shop, they wrote down 1 boy and 1 girl in the family member for Anh’s family, instead of 2 boys. They found some girl clothes in Anh’s uncle Huy’s bag as well.

Day by days, they discovered more different

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