So, I have been in the United States of America for nearly two weeks and have learnt a few things. This is not my first visit here, but i feel I am older and wiser now.
Firstly, everything is BIGGER AND BETTER. The food is HUGE, the portions are HUGE, the stores are HUGE, the cars are gigantic and the people are also pretty big themselves.
Secondly, this place has really weird politics which most of its people are shocked to learn about (and yes, they are learning their own laws from an 'African'). I am happy to be an American...very useful little blue passport...but I can safely say i do not support their political ways.
Thirdly, most Americans seem to know where South Africa is because of the World Cup but still do not distinguish between Africa and South Africa.
Okay, that said. It is a wonderful country, full of lots of wonderful, shinny things, giant packets of M+Ms and Oreos, speedy fast internet which is uncapped and unsecured in most places, super advanced phones and laptops and millions of TV channels. It is safe and lovely and snowy and cold.
So, at the moment I am sitting in our neighbours house in 'The Willows' which is the community in which my mom's house resides. It is in the town called Chesapeake Beach in Maryland. It is a house built by my grandfather about 50 years and has been left to my mom now. It is a lovely old house right on the water but is only really inhabited for a few weeks a year.
We are off to New York City on Sunday for a few days and then off to San Francisco for a week and then Los Angeles for a week. And then back to sunny South Africa.
That is all I have to say for now. There are photos on facebook and i will write more as it comes :-)
Have a happy new year!
