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🇺🇸 FREEDOM, ADVENTURE & ONE VERY DISAPPOINTED PIG! 🐷😂 With freedom comes adventure… provided you’re willing to leave the house and risk your life expectancy dealing with the logistics! 🤣 Now that my Milford lift is installed (a story for another day), I can finally be loaded into the car like premium cargo and taken out to explore. ♿🚙 So, a couple of weekends ago, we rounded up the family, made our trusted tour guide sign an indemnity form (because apparently nobody trusts a quadriplegic with a good time), and off we went! 😂 Yes, I know I should post more often. I'm working on it. One adventure at a time, people! Now, having lived in South Africa most of my life, I had certain expectations. Dirty rivers, vandalised buildings, litter everywhere, rude people and parks that looked like they’d been abandoned sometime during the Jurassic period. Before the keyboard warriors emerge from their caves with their two cents' worth, YES, South Africa has beautiful, well-maintained private game reserves and parks. But when it comes to many public spaces, maintenance sometimes seems to have been declared an optional extra. 🇿🇦🙈 BUT AMERICA… WHAT ON EARTH?! 🇺🇸🤯 Clean parks. Beautiful walkways. Rivers without floating rubbish. Waterfalls without discarded shopping bags. Everything maintained like someone actually gives a damn! No fences everywhere trying to keep humans out or animals in. Nature practically walks into the city and makes itself at home. I kept looking around, wondering where the catch was. Surely somebody forgot to put up the “Please Don't Destroy Everything” signs? 😂 But the absolute BEST part? THE ACCESSIBILITY! ♿❤️ For once, I wasn't sentenced to life imprisonment inside the car while the family went off to see the sights. I could actually get out, roll along the walkways and enjoy the waterfalls with everyone else. Imagine that! A wheelchair user being able to experience nature instead of watching it through a windscreen. Revolutionary stuff! 😂👏 We even stopped at Pumpkinville to pick up some pumpkins for Halloween. 🎃 And that's where I met my new favourite pet: PIGLET! 🐷❤️ We bonded. We connected. I could see our entire future together. Unfortunately, the authorities refused to approve the adoption. Apparently, you can't just rock up to a pumpkin patch, fall in love with a pig and drive home with him. America has freedom, but clearly not ENOUGH freedom. 😂😂😂 Anyway, our American adventure has officially begun! 🇺🇸 Unfortunately, winter is coming… and knowing Ohio, there's a reasonable chance I'll be exploring the great outdoors again sometime around 2027. 🥶❄️ Until then, I'll be staring out the window, planning my next escape and mourning the loss of my beloved Piglet. A HUGE thank-you to our trusted tour guide for showing us the ropes and helping us discover just how beautiful this place is. ❤️ One wheelchair. One lift. One family. Countless adventures. And one pig that got away. ♿🇺🇸🐷 *So many photos to share but not aloud to

GOOD MORNING, SATURDAY! ☀️😂 Nephew has officially landed safely, survived the journey, and is now settled in. 🇺🇸✈️ Which means there is only one logical thing to do… 🚗💨 ROADTRIP! We’re heading out for the day, and all I can say is: OHIO… HOLD ON! We take **ZERO accountability** for anything that happens today. 🤣 If you see us on the road… No you didn’t. 👀😂 If you hear strange noises… That’s the GPS. If something falls off the car… It was probably supposed to do that. And if we get lost… It’s called exploring. 🗺️😂 Have an absolutely lekker Saturday, everyone! 🇺🇸❤️ Buckle up. Behave yourselves. Or at least make it look convincing. 😎

🚨 Is South Africa becoming the testing ground for Amazon’s future? Watch this video and ask yourself: Is this really the direction we want America to go? A program linked to Amazon Web Services in South Africa reportedly requires participating businesses to be 100% Black-owned, excluding companies with white shareholders. Amazon says it is meeting South Africa’s B-BBEE requirements. But here’s the question Americans should be asking: 👉 Could policies like this ever become acceptable in America? No whites allowed? Race determining who gets economic opportunities? South Africa has lived with race-based policies for decades. We know where division can lead. I came to America believing that opportunity should be based on ability, hard work and character, not the color of your skin. So… is this simply a South African program responding to South African law, or are we looking at a potential preview of where corporate America could be heading? What do YOU think?

Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday.😁 We decided to go outside for some fresh air and a little Vitamin D. ☀️😎 Just a nice, peaceful walk around the neighborhood… Then we came across THIS. 🎃💀 Apparently, even the local Halloween decorations were like: “Welcome to America, buddy. You thought you were just going for a walk?” 😂 So there I am, casually cruising past a giant pumpkin skeleton and a witch, wondering if I should be concerned that they’re judging my wheelchair skills. 👻♿️ Vitamin D: ✅ Fresh air: ✅ Exercise: Debatable. 😂 Survival of the neighborhood Halloween decorations: Still under investigation. 🎃 Honestly, America continues to surprise us around every corner! 🇺🇸❤️ I know it's still early but love how people are starting to get into the spirit here in America. Something that has been gone missing for the most part in SA.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: SHE GOT THE ...!!! 🚨 After what feels like approximately 17 years, 4 months, 63 days and several lifetimes of job hunting… my wife has officially found a job! 😂 It started with the applications. And by applications, I mean COUNTLESS resumes sent into the great black hole of the internet, where apparently resumes go to die. 📄💀 Apply. Wait. No response. Apply again. Wait. Question your entire existence. Apply again. Check email 47 times. Nothing. Then… FINALLY… an online interview! 🎉 We thought, “This is it!” But apparently that was only Level 1 of the boss fight. 😂 Next came TWO face-to-face interviews. The first one went well. Then came the second… And that interview lasted ONE AND A HALF HOURS! 😳 At that point I wasn't sure if she was applying for a job or negotiating a peace treaty between two countries. 😂 Then came the hardest part… THE WAIT. You know that magical period where every email notification causes your heart to stop? “DING!” 📧 Her: “Is that them?” Me: “I don't know!” Her: checks phone Amazon. 🤦‍♂️ Repeat approximately 900 times. And then… 🎉 THE PHONE CALL CAME. 🎉 SHE GOT THE JOB!!! ❤️🇺🇸 After all those applications, interviews, waiting, worrying, and wondering if anyone had actually read a single word on those resumes… SHE DID IT! I am incredibly proud of her. ❤️ Now comes the next chapter… SHE HAS A JOB. Which means apparently I have to start behaving like a responsible husband again. This could be dangerous. 😂😂😂 CONGRATULATIONS, MY LOVE! ❤️ You earned this one! 🥳🇺🇸

So today our PIR (Program of Initial Resettlement) section officially closed. Apparently, after being here for 3 months, they have decided we are ready to be released into the wild. 😂 There is still some support available to us, mostly advice and guidance, and apparently that continues for the next five years. Which is comforting… although I’m not entirely sure what they’ll be advising us on. “Good luck, refugees. You’ve got this.” 😂 What really surprised us, though, was going through the paperwork to see what had actually been completed. Page after page had things scratched out with the words: “Refugee did it themselves.” And I’m sitting there thinking… Do they not feel even a tiny bit of shame looking at how much of the work their "client" ended up doing? 😂 At this point, I feel like we ordered a pizza. The pizza shop gave us some of the ingredients, showed us where the kitchen was, and then said: “Right, you make it.” So we made the pizza. We cooked it. We cleaned the kitchen. We served ourselves. And then someone handed us the bill for the full pizza. Walking out, I’m thinking: “Wait… did I just pay for the pizza, or did I pay for the EXPERIENCE of making the damn pizza?” 🍕😂 The MG portion, which is supposed to help us with things like finding work, is still going for another three months. But, you guessed it… We’re doing most of that ourselves too. 😂 BUT… And this is the part that really matters. We are here. We made it. We are building a new life, and despite all the frustrations, delays, paperwork, confusion and the occasional feeling that we are apparently our own resettlement agency… We are incredibly grateful to be here. Coming to America is, without a doubt, the best decision we have ever made. So, at the end of the day, I can laugh about the pizza, shake my head at the paperwork and wonder exactly what we signed up for… But none of that changes the biggest thing: We got our chance. 🥳 Thank you, President Trump, for giving us that opportunity. But most of all, thank you to the American people. ❤️ Thank you for opening your country to us, for accepting us, for helping us, and for the kindness and support so many of you have shown our family. We will never take that for granted. We came here looking for a future. We found one. God bless America. 🇺🇸❤️

🌙 GOOD NIGHT, FRIENDS! Time to close the apps, put the phone down, and pretend tomorrow I’m going to be productive. Spoiler alert: I said the same thing yesterday. 😂 Sleep well, dream big, and may your alarm clock have mercy on you tomorrow. 😴😂 Good night, everyone! 🌙

Thank you. Here is one interview. There is more just go through the playlist you will find them. youtube.com/watch?v=E3Xfrhvp…

Well here is one interview. youtube.com/watch?v=E3Xfrhvp…