hello family and friends I am happy to report that three weeks in and I'm still
very much alive for those of you haven't noticed I'm missing yet I have moved to
the Cayman Islands after an extremely long flight I am finally in the Cayman
Islands we landed about 20 past five went through immigration quickly and
came into the hotel which is pretty cool we've got a nice kitchen area very
nice little bedroom I've been really excited for something new and different
this is it the adventure begins
in spite of the really long flights I got up really early this morning so just so
excited to check this place out so today is day 1 on the island
and beautiful sunrise walking along the beach the sand is so beautiful and white
and clean and the water is so blue I've never seen anything like this I get to
live in this place for the next 18 months it's just I don't think it's even
kind of set in the first few weeks on this island have been crazy busy
not exactly sitting on the beach sipping cocktails but we'll get there from day
one there's been a whole list of things to do find food good news I finally
found a decent shopping center it's called Kirk's it's basically like Woolworths
in South Africa the best part is that I found Nutella and so life's now complete
complete to find a house
FInd a car
Meet Rusty
get insurance on the car because you can't drive a car here without insurance and
then go and do a learner's test so that you can convert your South African license
to a Cayman license find a bank the banks are seriously way behind South
Africa in all respects I haven't been to a bank in the last three years in the
last few weeks I've been to the bank more than four times and had to phone
them numerous times seriously Investec bring your products
here finally this week we found a gym so I won't be getting fat just finish
the workout in our new gym soon you're going to look like this dude
and I've got a second to register with SAICA so that I can start calling
myself a CA(SA) in between all of that I've become extremely domesticated this is my
first time ever doing laundry and I really hope I've done this right
stuff is in there, only time will tell if I've done it wrong I have no clothes to wear
This week we started some real
work up after two weeks of training I have my own desk which is cool and I've started
to fill it up with movie pictures I'm doing it gradually so that the auditors
don't get a huge shock it's been a tough start coming and not knowing anything
about hedges or finance companies but I'm learning and it's all worth it to live in this beautiful place
my colleagues are all really cool and we've already had some fun times together
I love that everybody's really positive and upbeat about life generally
auditors just love to complain maybe it's the beautiful ocean or maybe
it's the fresh smell of the dump from our hotel room either way that works for me
next week as busy season kicks off we start pushing into 11 hour days but we
get free dinner so winning at life I'll keep you updated of course as I
live an extremely interesting and vlog worthy life and once things settle
down it'll be time for some movie magic you are most welcome
there are a lot of chickens running around here according to our estate agent
the hurricane in 2004 set a whole lot of the chickens loose and they got jiggy with
it so now there are thousands of chickens running around and nobody seems
to be doing anything about it except KFC