Well America, today seems as good a day as any to say my first proper “thank you” 🇺🇸
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I got on a plane at the drop of a hat on a risky overdue whim, with obvious excitement at my first adventure here, but minimal expectations 🤷🏻♂️ I’m glad I didn’t have time to create any because whatever I could have dreamt up would have been blown out of the water 💦
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You’ve turned celebrities into colleagues, pictures and movie scenes into reality and thrown catalytic sparks into things I’d given up on.
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There are plenty of things about this place I’m yet to get my head around (the whole gun thing is a bit odd, the mosquitos are the size of birds and like to bite me on the head, the fact that someone can ask me if a place called “Malaysia” is in Europe is gobsmacking and some of the alternative vocabulary is questionable) but for the other 996 reasons it’s a truly wonderful place 🏞 Consider me smitten and very grateful to be here - I only wish it wasn’t in such contrast to the current situation back home 😔
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It’s a good thing the exchange rate and visa limitations mean I’ll have to leave eventually, or things could get dangerously permanent 😅
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Thanks for having me so far. The dream is a real humdinger, and next week it’s set to get better again.
#july4th
