Here I am in my 4th month of living in my new home town of Grandy North Carolina , oh its been a huge change for me moving to a quiet little town with a population of approximately 2,000 people in the County of Currituck with a population of 24,000. its been somewhat of a huge change for me leaving my previous adopted town of Limassol that is having a population of 201.257 from an Island of a million people altogether and wow have I felt the change , some of the changes have been wonderful but I have to admit to some days of wanting to pack my bags and my precious loving husband and return to Cyprus.
Arriving here to USA in the middle of winter I guess wasn’t the best time of the year to be settling in , mostly due to the area being a bit of a tourist place , it was very very quiet , especially where our house is situated , its unfortunate that I haven’t been able to drive yet due to me having to re-sit the drivers test and have to be having the immigration papers all in order to do so ,I’m waiting for my permanent residence status being processed right now and hopefully that will be soon, then I’m sure I will start to explore the are a lot more, work and make friends.
I have met only a couple of the neighbours around here up until now, I have to say a big Thank you to my immediate neighbour Dorothy and her husband Colon who have been so very very kind to me since my arrival, she has taken me shopping many times , taken me for lunch and entertained me at her home more than once , thank God for Angels , she has been so wonderful to me, not only me but to my son who came here on a short visit during his spring break from Uni. he was over the moon to be taken to see the Wright Brothers first flight memorial ,especially as his goal in life is to be become a commercial pilot .
Dorothy ,Colon and my son John Michael.
I did get to visit a few very nice places that I intend to visit again when I do eventually get my drivers permit sorted, I got to experience a good old English Tea house in Elizabeth City where I enjoyed the most delicate Cucumber sandwiches !! and strawberry cream scones
mmm..I want one now 
Apart from this kind of trip out and filling my stomach with goodies I have also enjoyed the by now many trips to Maple Park that Chester has been mentioning in his blog , and instead of my stomach being fed I took along lots of bread slices and some of my less than perfect Hot cross buns from Easter and fed them to the Geese and ducks that I have found there ( I am very fond of ducks ), well I hope I didn’t kill them off with the hot cross buns as when we went to the park last time the ducks were no where to be found ! Here is 2 of the cutest ducks I have ever came across , so comical and very tame in comparison to the geese who are quite nervous and dont come too close to us
Maple Park definately one of my favourite places to go and feel relaxed, Chester told me it was actually constructed on top of a garbage dump ,but they sure did make a good transformation of it and its a real pretty area where there are lots of benches to sit and quite a few pergolas with picnic tables and handy grills for folks like us that like to eat outdoors often , we had our first Easter there together and cooked our lamb kebabs there , shame it was a freezing cold wind blowing but all the same I loved it .
This week there was a few days of mild weather so I had taken a walk along the main road running through Grandy where there are a few shops , I noticed a small Thrift shop called Classic closet consignments and decided to take a look , the girl who runs it is called Becky and was very nice and soon started to chat to me , well it was interesting as she told me that she had another Brit friend who lived in Grandy and proceeded to call this friend up and introduce her to me , well to my surprise Lyn lives but at the bottom of out Street !! since then we have had a couple of coffees together and chatted , Lyn has lived here in US for over 34 years and told me she felt exactly the way I did when she arrived all those years back but reassured me that she soon got used to life here in North Carolina and now loves it , well I feel better already finding someone who I can have a chat and a coffee with on a regular basis I really do miss all my pals in Cyprus ,well I still chat with them on Skype or by e.mail but its not the same as a face to face , so I am sure Lyn and I will become good friends also.
Not only did I find a friend in Beckys shop but I found the cutest cruet set for the kitchen table , a pair of ducks !! brand new and costing not even a dollar so I snapped them up instantly ,here they are
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Well thats enough for now on my life in North Carolina , I think I am gradually liking it more here, of course it doesn’t matter where I am as long as I am having my Mr G next to me life is perfect 
2 comments:
I waited a while to post to this; I've got the RSS feed to your blog in my reader, so the posts show up shortly after you hit "Send".
I mentioned in another post about my own English Rose and how she had planned to move over here, then family events conspired against that plan. It broke my heart when she begged me to move over there.
I knew I couldn't because I would get so homesick that I'd eventually blame her for being that way. I know, I know, awfully immature of me, but I knew that would be what would happen.
I still think of her often and hope she does the same of me. -sigh- I feel as though I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life not trying to be together any way it took.
That's nice that you met someone else from GB and esp. that she lives so close by. You'll feel better once you get your DL and can get out and about and not (probably) feel house-bound or relying upon others.
Im sorry Mike things didnt work out the way you hoped they would, its a big thing to re-locate and I don't think it was immature of you at all to take into consideration of how you knew you would feel once you had left the country you had always lived in and had family still there.
I know I have twice now in my life re-located and it sure brings a lot of emotional turmoil into your life, some folks I am sure must manage better than others in settling , and everyone has different pros and cons involved in changing their country of residence, I could write so many down on a list .
An expression I heat often is 'If you don't try you will never know ' and I guess its true '
Sad though you didn't keep in touch with each other , guess its all down to Gods will , who knows maybe God is waiting for better circustances to bring her back in some way to you .
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