Alina is crossing the road under the Moorhouse Avenue bridge. She has to make her way among orange cones, blue mats hanging off the feet of the bridge and thick plastic dividers protecting pedestrians from the traffic in the construction area. She has quite a journey behind her that allows her to be here. It all started in Russia in Alina’s teenage years. Her mum met a kiwi gentlemen on the internet and after his three-months’ visit to Moscow they married. A little later Alina came for a holiday to Christchurch to visit her mum, but she ended up staying. She studied at CPIT and now, after eleven years in New Zealand, she works as a software developer on Colombo Street. She doesn’t drive or take the bus to work, she walks all the way to Sydenham every day.