Today I have been in America for 10 months. I have 10 months of material yet unsaid. Perhaps it has simply taken me this long to have the energy to gather my thoughts enough to write about it.
In these ten months my oldest daughter has become a teenager and my youngest has turned 8. I am proud of them. What a huge adjustment they have made, what a massive experience.
We live in New Jersey, home to Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Okay, so I couldn't resist that. The so called 'arm pit of New York'. Really? I like New Jersey. The towns are clean, the people are friendly. The culture is interesting. Coming from another English speaking country I never dreamed I would feel quite as alien as I do. We are trying to embrace the different sport, both kids are playing games like basketball and softball instead of cricket and netball... We are trying to understand the desperate desire to win at everything. We are starting to understand how this country, the only so called 'superpower' ticks.
Since we have arrived in NJ we have experienced the biggest Hurricane to ever hit the East Coast, a presidential election, a long snowy winter, a horrific and heartbreaking school shooting in Connecticut, not too far from our town... and we have witnessed the despair of a nation yet again the target of terror at the Boston Bombings. It's been 10 short months....
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