Maarika moved to Brisbane Australia, she wanted to know what it would be like to live outside of the country, she decided to move from the United States to work abroad in another country, she wanted to know how people lived in other parts of the world, she was living in the state of New York prior to her move to Australia, she had been studying abroad for many years outside of the United States, Maarika had studied and researched multiple countries after her research she felt that moving to Australia was a better choice for her, this will be a journey she will never forget, she was excited about learning a new way of communicating with the people in her new environment, Maarika didn't know what to expect when she took that bold move to Australia, she was hoping to have some of the same surroundings she was used to having while living in the United States, she found some of them were similar, she also found that some of them were different in ways that excited her the people that she met was very friendly, they excepted her as though she was an Aussie. Maarika was hired as a "Delivery of Frac/Acid Service worker", preforming duties as a "Preplanner, Job trainer", "Post Job Analysis", and "Developing Programs", she came to Australia on a work Visa. Maarika would find out about life lesson's she never anticipated.