Introducing......me

My good friend Keke, who I met on the plane coming to Korea (insert sobbing face here) introduced me to an amazing, award winning and rather addictive blog, indieBerries.  It has contended with other sites in my heart (and shortcuts) and now is sitting firmly in my top 3 favourite websites alongside fellow companion FaceBook and Pinterest. In her blog, the beautiful Che challenges you to write a list of 50 things people should know about you.  In the words of Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother), Challenge Accepted.

50 things you didn't know about me

1. I like my second name more than my first but have been unable to convince people to switch over.
2. I have 2 personalities, 1 before my morning coffee and 1 after.
3. I hate bad spelling.
4. I spell and speak South African English, never American! I refuse, I'm not American.
5. I don't know how to play chess and would love to learn.
6. I went to boarding school - and loved it!
7. I was escorted off the ice-rink by the marshals at my first attempt at ice-skating at the risk of injuring myself (how embarrassing), I haven't put skates on since then.
8. I purchased my first laptop this year after using the SAME desktop computer for 8 years with no upgrading.
9. One of the first questions I will ask when I get to heaven is, why can't I sing?
10. At my age I still can't ride a bicycle - what does that make me, a late bloomer?
11. I haven't lived in the same city as my parents since I was 14 years old (Pietermaritzburg for boarding school, Cape Town for university and my first job, and now Daegu, South Korea)
12. I don't believe in star signs.
13. One of my biggest worries when I considered moving to Asia was where I was going to do my hair.
14. And hence this is the longest time I have gone without visiting a hairdresser - 8 months and counting!
15. This is also the longest time I have gone without seeing my mom!
16. I like reading magazines back to front- there is some great stuff at the back, you are usually too tired to notice by the time you get there.
17. I don't understand the point of Twitter - really I tried.
18. I hate flying- I believe if we were meant to fly, we would have been created with wings.
19. I owned a Wii for 2 weeks before returning it because it did not have the option to set it to English
20. My first trip overseas was only 3 years ago - in total I have checked in to 8 countries outside SA, I think the travel bug has bit me.
21. Salted Popcorn is my favourite snack.
22. Chocolate is overrated, whilst sleeping in on Saturday morning is underrated.
23. I have completed a half marathon (21.1 km)- don't be impressed, I walked most of it.
24. I'm in a long distance relationship :( city to city we are 12 575 km apart but growing closer everyday.
25. I don't like my handwriting - is it too late to fix that?
26. I love going to movies - always better on the big screen!
27. I'm the only black girl I know who has never worn a weave.
28. I don't like weaves.
29. There is a 10 year gap between me and my next (& youngest) sibling.
30. I wrote my learners 3 times.
31. I did my drivers test 3 times.
32. Snorkeling - only done it once, but absolutely loved it.
33. Studied a Bachelors Degree in Information Systems@ U.C.T - I can't remember what I studied.
34. I have convinced myself that if I buy an amazon kindle I will read more....
35. I love a beautiful sunset.
36. Sometimes I like to reward myself before the job is done.
37. I have a bucket list
38. The bucket list keeps changing.
39. You are never too old to go on a roller coaster.
40. Purple is my colour.
41. I love chick-flicks.
42. On average I do laundry twice a week but my basket is never empty.
43. I hate second hand smoke. 
44. I'll pay for a good laugh -attending comedy shows is an obsession.
45. My family and I celebrate my birthday over 3 days, 5th, 6th and 7th May -no one seems 100% sure of the facts, but my passport says the 7th, so after 27 years, I have finally decided to go with that.
46. On my first day of school, I was 5 years old.
47. The saddest scene in movie history is in the Lion King when Mufasa dies - tears I tell you!
48. Most of the time, I skip the book and wait for the movie to come out.
49. The only time I have been hospitalized was for surgery to remove my tonsils at age 6.
50. I love making lists.

Final thoughts

Adventure must start with running away from home - William Bolitho