i'm leavin' on a jet plane, don't know when i'll be back again!!! so here i am sitting at oliver tambo international airport in joburg with a mere 1 hour and 15 minutes until i board the plane to sunny oz, my island home, the land down under. sorry i'm felling a bit musical toady, hence all the song lines!! i'm super super super pumped about going home, its starting to actually feel real now that i'm at the airport! the last few days have felt a bit wierd being back in joburg, where it all began 7 months ago, it almost feels like i've come full circle. well not completely full circle cos i've done a lot and learnt a lot since i was last here.
so i guess i should explain myself a bit, in my last post i said i was staying in cape town and looking for work, planning on staying a few months. long story short i had a massive reality check, my bank is almost empty, my credit card is almost maxed so its time to come home i think! so after only a week of working at the backpackers i had o say, yep, sorry, i'm actually gonna go back to oz. they were really cool about it but i felt like an absolute arse cos another person left the week i did. so i spent the last few days in joburg, fairly quiet and its been raining so i wasn't able to do much. although i felt thewarmth of south african hospitality when a friend of a uni friend who lives here in joburg invited me to stay at her place last night, took me out to dinner, then today showed me around joburg, took me to lunch and then dropped me at the airport! needless to say, i'm very very grateful and will be opening up my door (wherever the hell that may be!) whenever she comes to oz!
so its the end of an era, the end of my african sebatical, the most amazing experience of my life to date..its still a bit wierd but it feels good to be going home. i know i'll be back, maybe in a few months or if not definately 2010, gotta watch the socceroos lose! i could sit here and write about all the things i've experienced, the things i've learnt about myself, about life, about the world and my place in it, about all the amazing people i've met, things i've seen, tasted, smelt and wished i hadn't, but i'll wait until i get home and i can do it in person with a cold beer in one hand, a vegemite sanga in the other, and a big fat smile on my face...till friday..take care..love to all...ange
