A new year is here. Like those that have come before, it feels surreal that another year has passed. But oh, what a year it was! What an amazing, difficult, challenging, fantastic and transformational year it was. 2010 has got a lot to live up to…

With my home country, South Africa, hosting the Football World Cup this year and with a good dose of irony in that my wife and I are emigrating from this beautiful country this year, times ahead are both exciting and daunting!

So excited, so scared, its gonna be a heck of a ride! By this time next year, I will be writing this blog post from Sydney, Australia (and will be lavishing the supremely better internet connection). I wonder how we are going to look back the place that has been our home for 28 years? How will we see everything once viewed as an outsider? I wonder how long it will take before I put on an Australian rugby jersey and praise the team?

So much beauty here, seems crazy to leave paradise except for the fact that it’s nearly paradise but not quite. It is all those not quite’s that are driving us away and to the place that has everything we have but fills in the missing gaps. You probably think we are taking the easy way out.

Is it easy to leave everything you know and everyone you know behind? Is it easy to start again from scratch? I think it’s far easier to maintain status quo.

I just can’t imagine ever supporting the Ozzie cricket team though :)