Nutters on Buses

Firstly, let me tell you I am NOT having a pity party today BUT....  thinking about and missing my friends in Thailand.  When you're living in a host country many of your friends end up becoming family.  With your own family members so far away the closeness of friends becomes very important.

 People have been telling me it takes up to two or so years to re-establish yourself in a new community!  I'm hoping, for such an outgoing personas I am, it will take less time. I'm actually a bit jealous (also super duper happy) of how easy it's been for the boys to make friends here.  They get to go to school every day, they get to be with people every day, they get have something to do... I get to deal with finances, pay bills, buy food and all that fun stuff!  I've joined a choir but had a flu and cold for three weeks as my body gets used to NZ bugs and germs, so haven't be going  along to that. (Oh dear, it does sound like a pity party doesn't it?)

For those of you who know me well, you can imagine how much fun I have catching buses everywhere.  Most times I take a ride on a bus I end up chatting with someone.  There are people from just about every nation of the world in this city and I'm loving it.  Yesterday I was reading a newspaper on the bus and the old guy next to me starting talking to me in some language I couldn't understand, I thought he was a nutter, but it turned out that he was from the Ukraine and had just slipped into his native language... occasionally I do that with Thai and thank people or say hello in Thai.  Still haven't stopped stooping when walking past people older than me and my hands do still tend to fly up into an unconscious wai every now and then!  Yesterday I also met a lady on the bus who gave me her phone number.... we were chatting about our kids and I told her that I needed to buy some wood so middle son (MS) would have something to do in the holidays, she has wood at home, I now have her phone number, she lives around the corner... who knows... perhaps she is a potential new friend?

Nuff for today, out of bed and into life.... :)