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My interviewee, Rose, is a 68 years-old lady having non-English-speaking background who is living with her son and nephew at in the Northen Sydney area and she was is [you said "now," so it should be present tense] on in the process of migration now. Rose has a medium build and looks younger than her actual age. Since her husband passed away 8 years ago, she has lived on her own, however, when after moving to the Australia, she started to live with her son. These days, she have has no particular working place she belongs to, but she go and helps her son, who runs his own business, every day by organising products and cleaning the office. Rose is the one who normally does the chores most of the time and she was is happy about it rather than complaining because that’s the way she can help her family the most. She agreed to have an interview which is going through concerns her health issue in terms of getting older, and answered the questions with interests and joy.

Rose mentioned about getting tired easily compared to the times when she was young, and she added that she used to work a lot and didn’t feel any tiredness [you can also phrase it like this: "without feeling tired"]. Also, she complained about lower digestion function and it really got in her way all the time. It takes her so a long time to recover from this condition and it keeps going unless she reduces the amount of what she eats. Regarding to the emotional change, she doesn’t feel much difference, but she said she becomes a bit more impatient and touchy.

As a good things about growing older, Rose said she gets more time to think about herself which is was not even an idea of her when she was young age. She said ‘I’m getting wise, I guess, compared to the past’, and she sometimes reflects on her life. Another good thing is, now she got has a lot of good memories to recall herself, so it is really a beautiful thing that person has some valuable moments to look back on. At last, she feels more freedom and she enjoys her leisure time doing yoga, sports dance, belly dance and aerobic exercise. She realised all the shyness she used to have disappeared and she feels more confident especially through the dancing class. Going to the dance class helped a lot to her health a lot as well as gave her a good opportunity to have a social relationship with others joining the community.