Wonderland

Here I am, in my new "home" where everything is different from where I grew up and well...got used to.

 My Wonderland*...

 Just like Alice, a whole new world in front of me just waiting for me to explore it.

 My first night here - In Canada - was seriously a story. I arrived at the airport then took a taxi and went to this address that I have to meet my "roommate" in his house. When I actually arrived the house was pitch black and the weather was chilly and I was walking on snow for the first time, snow that I've only seen in the freezer. so I knocked and no one answered. The taxi driver was nagging so I just gave him the money and took my luggage and put them on the front porch.

 I went to the neighbors next door and there was this old granny who turned out to be "just visiting" and this was her son's house and he was out. so there I was in the cold in the middle of nowhere - at least for me - just wondering around the block looking for this guy. later on the woman's son came and invited me to his house and he called my roommate who turned out to be in the airport waiting for me...

 What a great way to start my first night out of Kuwait and on my own. It would be a great Christmas story as Bonnie - the old lady - said.

 I'm currently self-learning. A Sponge just absorbing whatever it touches. I'm learning the basics of survival, building my self esteem and confidence, trying to be more social or in other words, I'm coming out of my shell and starting to experience life.

 As I said, I'm in my Winter Wonderland. and as the great Gloria Gaynor once said, "I Will Survive".

*Did you know that Wonderland is actually called Underland but Alice had misheard it?