My years at Elwood High School are still to this day, memorable.

As a teenage migrant to this amazing land, I was an eager and wide-eyed 13-year-old from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who had the hallmark of making it ‘good in Australia’.

This was the dream, and Elwood High was my entry point. The words that come to mind to describe my experience are: collegiality, collaboration and community.

Reminiscent of my time at Elwood High, there are four of us who regularly dine, share history and inter...