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Hello Old Friends J

It has been FAR too long! Fortunately I can console myself with the fact that you are all just as bad as me!!! So this year started out pretty much the same as every year – with me not being sure what i was going to do with my life and pretty much up for anything! I had to let Ulrike know what I was doing by the end of Jan so on the 31^st I decided that I would look for a real job anywhere in the world (narrowing it down this much was a big achievement for me!!) So on the first of Feb I started the job search.  After a week of searching I got an interview at this really cool place in Pietermaritzburg so on the Wednesday I flew to Durban at the crack of dawn and then rented a car (for a CRAZY price) and drove to PMB. To say the interview went badly would be an understatement. They were asking all sorts of difficult questions like when last was I involved in a project that included hydraulics and what did I get for my Design thesis  3 years ago! I started off well but was a stumbling, stuttering IDIOT by the end – awful.

Anyway I shook it off and drove back to Durban to catch a flight to CT where I packed up my stuff and put my CV online over the wkend. On Monday morning this recruiter phoned me and asked if i could go to an interview in PE the next day. I was like SURE!  Packed up Marco at top speed and set off. Spent the night in Mosselbaai and left the next morning for PE. I was just in time for the interview due to an issue at the toll booth (I arrived and didn’t have the R32 (!!!) toll so had to go back down the road for 20km to find an ATM and then come back – nightmare) Anyway the interview went well except that twice I answered the wrong question cos I had to guess the question as the guy’s Afrikaans accent was so strong.

Then I carried on the EL and went to my next interview the following day at Goba Consulting Engineers and Project Managers (www.goba.co.za) It too went well and shortly ther after I got the offer. It’s been awesome so far – I’m really really enjoying it J

Adjusting to life in EL has been a bit of a challenge. Poor B caught me on a particularly bad day and I spent our whole coffee catch up bitching about how I hated East London. That phase has passed. Now I’m feeling very zen about the whole thing. I’m actually getting into it J

I have my powerplate class and sewing class and pilates classes and am a (semi) firm fixture on the fun run circuit J

The first one the Tanj and I did was the Buffs 5km trail run about a month ago. I almost died a few times. Seriously. My heart rate was through the roof, my lungs were on fire and I almost fell on an electric fence (who puts a run RIGHT next to an electric fence – seriously???) Halfway through I told the Tanj to abandon me and carry on – she replied that she couldn’t because there was no-one else behind us to help me if I collapsed! (which was a real possibility!)  hahaha

Since then we have also done the Cabbage Patch in Komga and were supposed to do the Jevon’s one tonight but it was raining and I was concerned about the possibility of flash floods.  Hahahahaha

Having completed a week and a half of work by the middle of last week I decided I needed a break and took two days off to go the Cape with my parents to collect my furniture. We left on the Thursday at 4am and arrived at 7pm. Crazy. We got lost in Oudshoorn, Ladysmith and Wostercer. Honestly. We also stopped on a wine farm and stocked up for the next decade or two.

I’m looking forward to hearing all of YOUR news (hint hint hint)

J