I’m not the only one I’m sure.
But it’s getting to me.
My problem is, is that I think Jo’burg is boring and I need to leave as soon as I can. The fact that I’ve lived in crazy cool Hanoi for the past year and a half has only reinforced this longing.
Where I used to be able to walk out into my alley and take half a dozen ‘cool’ pictures of ‘what-it’s-like-living-here-cause-it’s-so-super-different’ I walk out not into my drive way and I’m I don’t feel like it’s a good idea to walk beyond the electric fence with my nice camera.
Right outside my alley in Hanoi
Right outside my house now, in jolly Jo'burg
I’ll stop there because the above paragraph is exactly the opposite of what I hope to accomplish with this new blog.
So here is my purpose:
Find the joy in Jo’burg.
My tainted and ‘everythings-beter-somewhere-else’ eyes are not trained to spot this again.
I realize that satisfaction and joy and good things in life is a heart thing, not a location thing. So in a way it’s more than just being back in Jo’burg and making it work, it’s about finding the cool in the mundane, the beauty in the face brick apartment complexes and the freedom beyond the security fences.
And here with the first offering:
surprise baby at the Jo'burg zoo
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