Where to Begin..

I am sitting in the middle of nowhere in the Eastern Cape, creating a blog that has been in the pipeline for a very long time. Finally, my procrastination techniques have deserted me and I can sit down in my temporary new home with two Scots, a Brit and a fellow South African sitting alongside me, and get down to it.

The idea started with a group of friends having tea. There are six of us who all went to school together and who now, being five years out of school, are doing exciting things with our lives and have decided that they are worth writing about. Zama was actually the person who struck the match and the idea was then fueled by the rest of us, even though it took a good few months for it to actually begin.

Jessica, Candice, Annie, Carilee, Zama and myself, Gayle, went to school together and have progressed from paper aeroplanes being thrown around the classroom to this- a stream of letters disguised as blog posts so that we can keep in touch and occassionally link ourselves back to our roots, like helium balloons anchored by their strings.

This is the story of our divergent lives, which began in Mrs Brown's English class in Durban, South Africa.