I'd lived a fairly ordinary life as a health professional in a small town not too far from the city in Australia, earnt a decent wage, had a reasonable life.
In 2013 I followed my love of helping people find comfortable shoes to Africa. Somehow I ended up running into the love of my life drinking ginger beer at a Rasta Bar on the beach in picturesque Nungwi, Zanzibar.The next 6 months was a whirlwind of trying to pack up my life and job and sell my stuff while my boy was busy getting a roof ready for us to live under.
Finally after finishing up work in mid-December and a whirlwind of packing and culling that my parents are still trying to deal with, I took the 48 hour (including 10 hours wandering around Kuala Lumpur and 8 hours loitering around an Omani airport) trip from Brisbane to Zanzibar via KL and Muscat back to be with my man.
4 months on, there have been ups, downs and in-betweens. I'm never going to be Zanzibari, but I'll never be strictly Aussie again. But before I stop being amused by the antics of the little things in life here, which are surprisingly easy to get used to, I wanted this space to:- bring together some of the little daily life tidbits that I just can't find in the phrasebooks
- remember this time of wonderment
- share with family and friends
- practice and share some Kiswahili
- ease some of the transition from career to housewife
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