Hi, BTN. I'm Taras. I'm Nazar.
And we want to tell you our story
about going to Australia from Ukraine.
Hi, BTN. My name is Luka.
I go to Australia...
I'm from... One month.
My cousins are Taras and Nazar.
In Ukraine, we lived in Lviv.
It was a very beautiful city. It was very interesting.
We like playing with friends, soccer, and it was fun for us.
Well, it was my mum and dad and grandparents and great-grandma.
(SIREN BLARES)
Russia started attacking Ukraine
and we need to go to another country.
(SPEAKS UKRAINIAN)
TRANSLATOR: When the war started,
we saw lots of war planes and helicopters
flying over our house.
Our mum and dad were constantly alarmed
with the air sirens,
and we all had to hide in the basement.
On the seventh day of the war,
our mum took my sister and I to Poland,
together with our cousins.
We had to leave our great-grandmother in Ukraine
and say goodbye to her.
Our dad couldn't come with us because, in Ukraine, war,
and maybe he will go to the army.
That makes us feel sad and worried because it is very hard for us.
We wish our dad come with us.
(SPEAKS UKRAINIAN)
TRANSLATOR: I felt really sad leaving Ukraine.
I didn't like it at all.
The first two days have been very sorrowful for me.
I was so sad leaving my dog behind. We used to play with him every day.
We will now go to Poland
because Russia attacked Ukraine and it is very dangerous.
The first day of war
was my birthday.
It was the worst day of my life.
Now we are waiting for the plane to Australia.
We want to see our cousins, Andrew and Sophia.
They live in Australia,
and it is our chance to run away from the scary war.
We left Poland and came to Australia
and it was very hard to fly 20 hours on a plane.
We were nervous and excited too.
We're in Australia!
Australia, it's very far, and a different place.
Here are good animals, nature and weather.
So, what are your plans today, guys? What are you going to do?
Let me guess - ride bikes.
It's very hard for us to tell in English,
but we are learning this language.
I want to see the kangaroo and the koala.
Now we're staying in Adelaide in this beautiful house.
An Australian family let us live with them.
(SPEAKS UKRAINIAN)
TRANSLATOR: It's rather strange at first
to live with other people, especially when waking up,
but I got used to it.
I discovered later that they were actually
really good people.
MAN: Shall we do some sandwiches, guys?
You know that koalas make these really, really strange noises?
They go like... (GRUNTS LIKE A KOALA)
(ALL LAUGH)
With Zach, we play a lot of games.
Table tennis, play soccer, and ride a bicycle.
This is Vegemite.
It's an Australian spread and it's very salty,
so you're either going to love it or hate it.
Ooh, I don't like it.
It's good? (GROANS)
No. (LAUGHS) No!
I'm Zach, and Taras, Nazar and their mum
are living with me in my house.
They have been living here for around a week,
and it's been great having them over here.
Taras, Nazar, what do you want to be when you grow up?
We want to be football players. Yeah, yeah.
We really wanted to help out with the Ukraine conflict.
Yeah, I was sort of nervous at first, but, um,
I know that they'd definitely be good people,
and I know that they're coming from a pretty tough time,
so we just wanted to make them feel at home.
Next week, we will go to the school,
and I think we will find new friends there.
(WOMAN SPEAKS UKRAINIAN)
Tomorrow, we go to the zoo.
There are very good animals, and very beautiful.
I really like kangaroos. They're very fun animals.
(SPEAKS UKRAINIAN)
TRANSLATOR: I'd like my dad to come to Australia with my dog,
my grandmother and my grandfather, with all my relatives.
We hope the war will end.
And we hope that we will meet with our grandparents and dad,
and they will be very happy.
(ALL SPEAK UKRAINIAN)
Here, we're safe, and war is far for Australia,
so now we are safe and happy.