Multicultural Aussie Neighborhood

Chance meeting on the street…

Ray: Morning. You’re our neighbor in number 30, right?
Isamu: Yes. Nice to meet you. At last.  We travel a lot. Sorry.
Ray: So do I. Ships that pass. 
Isamu: What’s that antenna on your roof?
Ray: Ham radio. I was. Bit out of fashion now though. I was an aircraft mechanic before retirement. Like to tinker with electric gadgets. Someone in the neighborhood told me you sail.

Isamu: Yes. A yacht. I was sailing round the world in the 1970s. Got a job teaching art at the uni so made my base here in Adelaide.
Ray: We’re both migrants, then. My lot came in 1850. From Germany. Not convicts.You like Aussie, then?

Isamu: Multicultural, sometimes messy, surprising.
Ray: You should come over for tea. I make terrible tea but excellent conversation. 
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Voice-over
A technical tinkerer and an artist. No barriers there. In true Aussie style, Ray ups the ante to invite Isamu to a barbecue.