When Friends Kick You Out

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Coming to Canada and U.S. to live with friends or relatives is not a good idea, because at some stage, they’ll think you are a burden, because life is very expensive abroad. Hopefully, it won’t happen to you. Anyway, moving companies  look forward to spring and summer because that is when most people: 

1. move from rental apartments to homes they bought

2. move from apartment buildings where tenants play music the whole night

3. move to other cities with better job prospects

4. move to Auckland, Australia to work at the Consulate of Canada

5. move to Miami after retirement to soak in the sun after decades of mischievous Canadian winters

6. move because of marriage/divorce or move to join the army

It is very exhausting because of what is in the TO DO list: telling banks, the telephone/T.V./internet service provider, the government, hydro company, post office, schools, the gym, community organizations and other people you deal with that you will no longer be living at 702 Depression Drive.  What can I say?  There must be a Depression Drive somewhere out there, since life is one long depression.

Most moving companies can, for a fee, fold your clothes and pack fragile kitchen stuff nicely before loading it into their snake-long trucks and drive them inter-state to your new province or city. I’m scared of snakes but aren’t they clever?  They know when and how to shed their skin.  Not human beings. They don’t like throwing away things. They hoard.  Material possessions define who they are, the bigger the better. 

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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