New things........

I've been living in America for nearly a month!! I can't believe how lucky I have been to get an opportunity to do this!!

It's been a real change in my life. It's not just a time zone when you move. Your whole world, that you use to know and be comfortable in, is changed. Mine is very much for the better.......

The job; To say awesome, is an understatement!! I guess I have experienced private referral and now am being challenged by university referral work. The challenges are very much different as is the focus.

Fortunately the cases stay the same.......

The teaching is something that has me hooked!! And the learning and steep learning curve is ridiculous....

But somehow I find myself motivated after 4 years of doing a residency because the focus has changed. The students are what drive a university. Their attitudes are the ones you rely on to enjoy your work.........

As for Baton Rouge.....Most amount of food and eateries I have ever seen.... From Jimmy Johns to Five brothers, to drive through Smoothies at Smoothie king and who could forget Drive through Community Coffee and Starbucks.......Get out of town.

And just when you think you've seen it all then you experience Canes.......This is the craziest story which I was told whilst doing drive through at Canes in a mini bus with the other residents at orientation......

The founder Todd Graves was enrolled in a Business course at LSU. So Graves writes a business plan about establishing a restaurant chain.....No one bought the idea. In fact, everyone thought it would not succeed. So Graves raised the money for his first restaurant by working in oil refineries and then on fishing boats. From that one restaurant came more than 100 restaurants in 15 states.

Here's the kicker.....His idea was simple sell chicken fingers!!!!!!

I've been told there is also a way to eat Canes.....You have to open the lid when you get it so it does not get soggy........Food eating as an art............

My point is that this has been the best move for me in more ways than one. I love what I do and I love walking into the university each day.......
Henry Miller once wrote " A new world is not made by simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is a caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky...."

What I take out of this is don't be afraid of trying to better yourself no matter what the cost. For me this was a real leap of faith. There is nothing wrong with wanting to improve yourself through changing the world you live in and your immeidate environment. But, never forget where you came from or the friends you have made in that world..........