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My dreams?. Well, where do I start? Sometimes I like to day-dream.I like dreaming of being myself. I can dream of being anything, like, being on a cruise.
Sometimes I dream about being with family and friends and being a dancer. And with my hopes, I am hoping to save enough money so I can go back to South Africa and also getting my bathroom renovated.
I am good at food cooking, talking, mingling, talking with my hands, pulling faces and being myself.
My busy week. Wow, where do I start? Well I work part time in a nursing home Mondays and Tuesdays; office cleaning on Wednesdays, hip hop on Thursdays;
down time on Fridays; dance classes on Saturdays; and performance on Sundays.
And I spend time, two, three days and the weekend with my girlfriend and I want to make time with my mum.
What Independence means to me, is to be in the community and making a network of making new friends, and, looking after my cat and food shopping, and making sure you got food, eating well and sleeping well,
and, paying phone bills and power bills on time and be your own person so you don't have to, so you can have your own freedom and space, and never let anyone tell you what to do.
I had a mentor who helped me how to cook, how to do food shopping, how to follow a recipe book. I used to have speech therapist and I used to have trouble with my talking.
I used to stutter, and stutter fast. So I have to breathe in, and breathing out. And now I'm talking calmly, and clearly, and now I'm talking to you.
Th people who gave me my independence is my mum, my dad, my brother, my sister and my whole family. They have always believed in me from the start.
Well, my mum bought me this flat ten years ago and they said, and they came up to me and said, "Here is your freedom, your space. Go for it!".
I'm in a very bad situation here. I have a commitment and an opportunity. Sometimes oppurtunities slip through your fingers just like that.
But commitment and an opportunity double-book and they clash.Same time. Same day. How can you get out of that? It's not simple. Its not that easy. You can't even go around it.
Sometimes it doesn't work out. Sometimes they do.
But if you make it a different time and a different day, everything will work out. But it's hard to do two, three things at the same time.
Sometimes I make some good choices and some bad choices.
Yes, I do take hours on making a choice and sometimes I don't need help to make a choice.
I can make up my own mind. I want to make choices and plans, so that I can tell you, that I am a grown man.
The End.