Currently I live in Sydney, though my odyssey began in South Africa, twenty -five years ago, where I qualified as a solicitor. I married young and left my entire family to emigrate to Melbourne, where I knew no-one. I went back to university to convert my law degree to Australian standards and practiced as a commercial solicitor for a few years. A life-changing business opportunity necessitated an urgent move to Sydney three years later at short notice. This decision was one of the turning points in my life as there was a slight complication: I was thirty-one weeks pregnant with twins and only had a small window in which to travel. We took the risk, and I gave birth prematurely at thirty-four weeks. The twins are now thriving young adults.