Well hellu
Imagine going to work and you step into your office, or class, or shop, whatever it is you do - and everyday you enter, you have a different manager and a different supervisor, a whole different team of between 11-19 people that you work with. And you have to become one, a team within 5 minutes and within 1hour you feel like you've known them for years. And after a sometimes hard, sometimes short, sometimes long day, you leave your office/class/shop and step out and just happen to be in another country, haha. Breathe in some Pakistani air, or watch the sunset in Istanbul, or feel the rain in Paris. But just to take this a step further, you loose the definition of what a day really is. Or rather the definition of a day changes into anything that is 24hrs. You might be going to and/or leaving your office 2am or 11pm or 3h15pm and sleep for 8hours whenever your work has finished. Now this last step might give some of you the creeps, thinking that there is no routine. This is the part I love most. It is quite crazy and I don't feel bad for sleeping till 3 o'clock in the afternoon anymore:) Everyday is literally a new day...
So, I saw my pookie in Johannesburg and it was magical;) Say no more. Was good seeing the love of my life.
Then I did Bahrain and Doha both in one day, sheesh what an experience. And now I have just returned from Birmingham. My first time in the UK. Unfortunately I have only one photo, dunno if I did something wrong when charging the camera battery:( but it died on me. My cousin came to visit me while I was there, what a nice surprise (she knew I was coming, and found out where I stayed). Took me to this beautiful lake and park. Afterward, when they left, I was too tired (and the weather too miff) to travel around and just went shopping. Found the cutest things in shops - believe it or not, but they have VERY healthy items in the shops and I sommer did grocery shopping because of all the things I found. Service in Birmingham I found extremely good, friendly and helpful, even the cleaners speak with their posh accent giving me professional (because everything sounds PROFESSIONAL in real English, haha) to the loo's. The robots (gosh, people think I'm little loony when I say that here, so traffic lights from now on) turn orange again before they turn green. I thought that was nice. I quite enjoyed my stay I must say, although the flight back was awful. 6 hours of no breaks, these English drink too much, hehe.. I am starting to (after 3 weeks of flying) get the hang of things. Finally finding my way around the (different) aircrafts, or getting there at least:)
Now I chill again (and recover from jetlag) for 3 days, then I go to Joburg again.
Well that's all for now. Looking forward to any replies.
Wishing you all a very happy and festive season, a merry xmas - and may the year 2008 be the beginning of yet more learnings, discoveries, new insights and great changes and prosperity. Sending you lots of good vibes and love.
Goodbye then
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