At the age of 16, Giuseppe Parissi left Ascoli Piceno, Italy to migrate to Australia.

Giuseppe Parissi was born on 10th of February 1939 in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. He left Ascoli Piceno to migrate to Australia for a better life and so he could get a job. Before he migrated to Australia, his older brother Marco, was already in Australia working. When he was on the ship, he missed his family a lot because he was on his own and he wouldn’t see them for a long time.

Ascoli Piceno is in the east of Rome and it is a town like Ballarat and it sits in the valley and you can also see all of the mountains. In the history of Ascoli Piceno, lots of gladiators would live in towers near the river.

In 1955, he left Ascoli Piceno to migrate to Australia and he was 16 years old and he travelled by a ship called Oceania. The trip took 27 days and it was fun for him. When the boat was three days to Australia everyone got sea sick from the big waves.

When he arrived to Port Melbourne, he stayed with his brother Marco who migrated to Australia in 1952. After a couple of days in Port Melbourne he settled in quickly and he got a job at a hostel where there was 600 people and his job was a kitchen hand. After 2-3 weeks, he quit. He quit because he didn’t know how to speak english so he got another job with only Australians and he learnt how to speak English by them.

The house he lived in with his brother was two storey house with two bedrooms downstairs, two rooms upstairs, a kitchen, a bathroom and a loungeroom.

A couple of years later, his brother Pasquale, Frank and his little sister Antonieta migrated to Australia with his parents so the family could be together.
Years later, Giuseppe Parissi got married to Maria Parissi and had a son John.

All of the years Giuseppe Parissi lived in Australia, he has been loving it.