Thursday, February 24, 2005

Don't Turn Your Back On South Africa


Here's why life in South Africa is good for me right now as opposed to life in Korea right now:

Good:
Summer
Clean air
Delicious grub (Nando's, Steers, homecooked veggies etc)
Savannah Dry(that's an alcoholic drink)
Being able to swim in a lane with no one else in it
Having food cooked for me at home
Having my bed made for me at home
Living in a house (with DSTV and a swimming pool, and a big garden)
Playing with pets
Cycling with CJ or Hannes
Chatting to dad about Bush
Beautiful and interesting girls
Sparletta Creme Soda
Primi
Driving again
Driving a Jeep
Riding on quiet country roads
Being able to see the sky
Seeing lightning, and the atmosphere of thunderstorms almost every afternoon
Being able to speak English to everyone and being understood
Cycling races
Spar
Liqui Fruit and Ceres
Biltong
Hard but brief rain storms
Going to the farm with friends and having a marshmellow braai
Using a cellphone (not that you can't in Korea, just that I never bothered)
Holidays
Old and new friends
Melons (the orange ones)
Fishpaste
Cafe Rossini
Traumerei
Blonde girls with blue eyes
Being able to draw money from an ATM after 22:00
Not having to sit on the floor or take shoes off when going into a house
Wearing slip slops
Cleavage - it's everywhere!
Being recognised by people while walking down the street outside my house
Wanting to drive around and take pictures because the environment is so lovely
Running through leafy suburbia and not being worried about traffic or smog
Getting an all over tan
Finding enchantment in places like Hobbit House and swimming in Die Veldskoen dam (and not being chased away)
Arriving 15 minutes before my flight at the airport and still being allowed to board
Seeing so much vitality in nature - birds in the garden, animals on the side of the road
Seeing so many cyclists in the mornings, and almost all greet you
Getting something you ordered from a bike shop the next dayHaving lunch in someone's home, or dinner (which is usually a barbeque)
Having to choose how to spend an afternoon between going to yoga, a cricket match, or swimming
Just feeling happy to be who you are, where you are.

Bad:
Slow internet
Can't play computer games like Counterstrike
No one to speak Korean to, and have to resist wanting to say, 'Jincha' or 'Pali pali'.
Missing some friends back in Korea.
Miss the speed and efficiency of my computer

Overall:
Good to be here, but when the season's change, will be awesome to step back into the East as spring springs...
Unless I can find something useful to do here, and something creative...something Peter Pan would approve of...


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3 comments:

Nick said...

Yes it is a leopard. Cheetah's are much slimmer, and slighter. Leopards are stronger and slightly squatter.

Anonymous said...

The orange ones are called Cantaloupe Melons. I overdosed on them in France and was off work for half a day. There you often find they serve slices of melon wrapped in parma ham. Delicieux!

Nick said...

The melon turned out to be not quite ripe. Quite hard and not very orange. I'm disappointed, especially after picking up and smelling and knocking on about 8 of them!