30-Days-of-Gratitude

Day 3: What I didn’t have a year ago. Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash ** A year ago, I was in the middle of waiting to get confirmation of the offer of this job, which has led to me being out here now. Between then and now there have been dark days, thanks to the pandemic and all, but overall a year on, I’m out here, largely settled in and have the six-month milestone coming up in a month’s time. Being an expat was something on my bucket list many years ago, so finally getting to do that properly is something I am grateful for.

Day 2: A simple pleasure I am grateful for. Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash. \\\* Getting to attend a virtual meeting in which I had a presentation to give and it being very well received brought to mind the pleasures I have gotten in the past of being the purveyor of esoteric knowledge at times. Small but welcome pleasures.

Something I am looking forward to: By the time I finally upped sticks and headed out to SA by way of Dubai, I felt fed up to my ears with the corner of Surrey in which I had spent the past three months, looking forward to the journey that lay ahead of me. Now that I have spent four months and counting without being able to go anywhere really, the attractiveness of that place shines through and through. I am grateful to be able to call that city home. For that I am grateful, and look forward to a return there at some stage.