9 Week Update

So its been 9 weeks for me in this Journey that i have embarked upon here in the USA... The weather is getting nice and hot and everyone is getting ready for summer. Every animal around has cute fluffy little babies. aaahh...

Well, everything that felt SO foreign to me only a few weeks ago - feel so familiar and so normal to me now. Both instances obviously has its advantages.. and disadvantages... I am currently in the phase that finally seems like home now. Its relaxing and refreshing to be able to know where everything is, able to drive without feeling brainless and understand what most things mean.

I am really enjoying living here. Its so peaceful and i have found that Living in the USA is really an idealistic life espeically for families. Everything is geared to making people's lives that much easier and better. Its really is a country "for the people". Although i am sure there is alot - i have not yet seen any hardship - most people here live above the breadline and live quite comfortably. From a South African perspective where povety and crime is just part of your life in some form or another - its so easy to live here and forget what that is like. So it makes me appreciate as well that i come from a country where we appreciate the small things in life that is quite a "norm" here. Not to say it is not appreciated here - its just easy to forget that there is a world out there that lives and survives on so much less.

Its even more important to me here to never forget where i come from and the things that i learnt within the boundaries of my heritage.

Ok, everyone has probably been wondering... NO i DONT even have a hint of an American accent yet! And i am sure i wont pick one up in the least. I dont feel the need to pronounce things the way they do at all. I seem to be very well understood (and my accent is practically worshipped here LOL jokes). So i work my uniqueness and the fact that i love saying "Ja" and "lekker" and calling people "doll" and making people feel intimidated by my accent! More power to me! But i might work a little fake one when i get back home (that comment will probably come back to bit me in the bum)...

I havent made any friends here really. In my situation - as i am not fully involved in something, its difficult to make friends. I do meet people in the malls, bookstores and places i go to. People make conversations very easily here. Today i went for a walk and met a nice guy walkng his fierce looking doberman dog... we laughed at my phobia of evil looking dogs.. but no the people i meet in malls and coffee shops - i hardly invite home or anything like that!

I chat to most of my friends on email, i call them or sms. Its of utmost importance to me to keep those connections, i do not believe that relationships survive without work, without effort and i value the few very good friends i have, on all the different shores. I love you guys.

So an update of where i have been to in the 9 weeks of being here besides travelling Charlotte flat:
Virgina / Virgina Beach, Richmond and Petersburg
Atlanta
South Carolina
DC (This coming weekend)

It doesnt seem like much, but if you consider how big this country is and that i only do my travels on weekends.. there is alot more to come. I have booked some concert tickets, Grand Prix tickets and i have my brochures and calendar lined up for much more...

My health has also finally started getting back into shape albeit slowly.. My skin has cleared up (mostly) after my delicious facial that cost me a freggin fortune..., my hair.. well nevermind thats another story, My allergies have cleared up completely. The only battle i have now is getting rid of the weight that i have gained thanks to the decadence of the USA (yes i blame them!!!!).

Ok ok i think i might have overshared on this posting.. just trying to keep it real dolls and answer all the questions that everyone has been asking me..um..

Oh - do I miss getting up at 6am and going off to a hectic day at the office??... um Nope not yet! LOL

The thing is - i know some people will say i will get bored soon, or that i am not getting enough intellectual stimulation. But you know, i have never been defined by the work that i do in my life. I have been a full-time student for 3 years, I have had hectic, stressful jobs, i have dedicated myself to volunteer community work for 1 1/2 years, i have been at home doing nothing but chores for 3 months in my quest for purpose, i have done nails day after day, i have done advertising and marketing and Entrepreneurship of a beauty salon, i have spent many years driving and escorting celebrities and important people even to the point of doing their shopping and laundry.. oh yes.. At no time did i feel like it was forever or it was all of who i am.

As i explore all the various dimensions of my life that i can possibly probe and be stretched and enlarged, my quest in life, is not to be a wonderer, but to find a destiny and a purpose in each of the tasks i choose until i have a final destination. And who's to say it has to be ONE particular thing? As long as i influence the people, i come across in a positive, challenging way and as long as i leave their lives and the tasks i hand over, with a spirit of excellence and mark of who i am and a smile and a good legacy. Then i have peace to move on.

Right now - i am also learning to become my own best friend again, to look inwardly and to enjoy my own company. Having the time to explore new and fresh talents - which i will share with you as the time goes on... bringing out a new, freshness of myself to this new world that i live in.. i revel in it and am SO thankful for the time and opportunity to have that.

When i had a few months off to do very little - i was so young and didnt appreciate myself as i do now - at my age i feel so much more sane, centered, appreciative of reality and the good things in life and the things that really matter to me and what really makes me ME.

I just wish my body would stay in the past as my soul and spirit and mind races into a fantastic future!......

By that mouthful y'all can see i have too much time on my hands huh? giggle giggle.... :-)