An Importan woman.

Known as Cathy, Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman, is one of the most important sporty icons in Australia. Cathy was born in Mackay, Queensland and she is the first aborigine ever to compete in the Olympics.

Despite of all her achievements, Cathy had a difficult childhood having experiemented the racism against aboriginals. In the Olympics of 2000 in Sydney, Freeman won the gold medal in the 400 meters in those games. That was an important event because was the first time that the Aboriginal flag was waving in an important event such as the Olympics in which the best sportives all over the world show their abilities.

Although all of these achievements has been important for her life, she hadnt has a perfect life. During her childhood she won her first gold medal at a school athletics championship when she just had eight- years- old. Furthermore, her family was really poor and like many Aboriginals, suffered a wide discrimination from the white Australians. Once, after winning many competitions at the school, Cathy had to watch how the school gave her trophies to the white girls she had beaten just because they thought, she didn't deserve to receive them. Facing that, her family started to working pretty hard in order to help her to reach big competitions.

Cathy Freeman should be consider as a good example for overpassing difficulties in our life. Despite of the discrimination she had suffered, she keep reaching her dreams untill finally she was the first Aborigine to won a Gold medal in the Olympics.

AUSTRALIA

For several years, Australia is perhaps one of the countries around the world considerated as an isolated country due to the big gap between this and other countries. However, Australia has been a really good place for living and studying looking at the last surveys which shows that this wide country has been called as a "Paradise" in the downunder.

Furthermore, the life in Australia enclose other aspects such as family values, working, among others. Living in an Australia's family is very interesting because they have a completelly lifestyle, begining with the really traditional bbqs (barbecues) on the weekends finishing with going to the movies, spending time in its beautiful beaches in the company of friends and of course the family.

Australia has beautiful scenaries that mix its unique fauna and flora through all the country, offering to the foreigners and native people a new alternative to enjoy the time at these beautiful places. In addition, in Australia is really common starting to be independent since being a teenager, thats why most of the young people begins to find a job in order to have their own budget to spend on.

As a result, the family life in Australia is unique because it is a mix between independence and a friendly place for sharing with all the integrants of the family.