Greetings
to all you lovely ladies and gentlemen out here on this great world
wide web, at the same time it does seem like as I have the honour of
welcoming you into my very own private corner her one the internet.
So at a time like this, I do feel the need to express my gratitude
for the fact that you are taking the time off from your daily routine
and busy schedule to check out and read my newly started blog. With
this in mind, I do hope that my work lives up to your expectations
and that you enjoy reading about the topics I am focusing on. At the
same time, if you by any chance see anything that needs to be
improved, I would appreciate the constructive feedback.
Anyway,
I guess its about time for me to get started on the part where I am
introducing myself and the blog you now are visiting. First of all,
my name is Jack White Sr or just Jack for short. I am at the time of
writing this post a 44-year-old Norwegian male who is living out his
dream in South America and have done so since July 2016. Here I am
enjoying my life together with my small family (son, a partner in
crime and cat). Yes, my friend, you did read that correctly, because
I have left my safe-haven back in Norway to live the exciting and
challenging life as an immigrant here in Peru. I guess you are
wondering why at this point. I would say that the most important
reason is my family
I
would say that the second most important reason has to do with my
life long fascination for this part of the world (when I am saying
this part of the world, I am thinking about Latin America). Because
the truth is that for as long as I can remember I have had a dream
about travelling and exploring South America. For me, it has to do
with the people, food, language, culture and its rich history this
region has to offer. Back in 2009 – 2010 I made my dream come true
and spent a whole month just exploring the streets of Lima. You would
be correct if you said I was sold on the idea and that was from the
moment I landed at the airport. This was an experience that kept me
coming back for more until my decision to move more permanently.
So
who am I as a person and what do I prefer to fill my everyday life
within the form of activities and such? As it is at the moment and
for the more standard mundane days of the week, these are for the
most part spent as a stay at home dad. The main reason for this is
because I do not have my paperwork to be able to seek employment
outside the household. At the same time, I have been for a while now
struggling with something called a language barrier. Let's say that
learning Spanish has been a much longer road to travel then I at
first had expected, why it has been like this is something I am
unsure about. Might be because most people I talk with would do it in
English and not Spanish.
When
it comes to me just spending time with myself or enjoying some good
old fashion daddy time as its called, I do enjoy wasting time on
computer games (these days its more likely to be on my Playstation 4
and games like Grand Theft Auto Online or Fishing planet). Yes, I am
an avid gamer or the correct is used to be, since its a lot less time
spent on it these days than it used to be. At the same time, I do
have a huge fascination for photography or capturing the everyday
small moments as I like to call it. when the opportunity arises I am
unable to turn down spending time outdoors. Either just walking
around in the city, hiking in the woods or go real-life fishing.
If
there is one single thing that I love doing when time and finances do
allow it, it has to be travelling and exploring new cultures. This is
one fascination that has brought me all over the world. I have
travelled all over Europe, North America, Asia and now started that
time in my life where I want to see as much of South America as I
possibly can or can experience. So far it has been limited to Peru
and Equador, but there are plans for Chile, Bolivia and Argentina
sometime in the future. At the same time, I do want to visit Africa
and Australia, just to be able to tick those boxes of as well.
Anyway, way before this becomes a reality I want to take my family
for a while to explore Europe.
When
it comes to the content of my blog and the plans that I have for it,
I have to be completely honest. The idea here is to focus on sharing
my everyday experience as an immigrant and expat to this amazing
country. Focusing on how I am experiencing how it is to live here and
how it was to visit as a tourist. This is something that I am going
to do through text, photos and videos, but the focus will be on the
text and photos. At the same time, I will do my best to portray it as
correct and factual as I can do. I will not sugarcoat anything and I
will also avoid using things like photoshop. At the same time and as
I see it, the Peruvian people do not have anything to be ashamed of.
When
it comes to the “intensity” in the post publishing process, it is
an area that I do not wish to promise more than I know is possible to
deliver on. I am for the most part thinking about my inexperience
when it comes to “working” like that and in that regard doesn't
want to bite over more than I can handle, short term. As I see it
with my very limited experience in this field, publishing a post once
or twice a week might be doable and with time also start working on
videos for my Youtube channel. Yes, I do have a Youtube channel as
well, but not been very active on it in the past. Have uploaded a few
videos last year, but it's only meant as an addition to the blog
itself.
I
have a confession for you guys and girls. This is not my first
attempt on having a blog, I had this one running for a while and felt
like I had painted myself into a corner. At the same time, I had
issues with extremely low numbers when it came to traffic coming from
search engines and such. So I took a break and work kinda got in the
way, after a while I felt maybe a restart and rework of the most
important posts would be a good idea. Not sure if it is, but the
result is that I closed the blog, took down all posts and now been
working on them for a while. At least I hope that I haven't made a
crucial mistake with this strategy, not that it matters since I am
doing it mostly for the fun anyway.
I
guess its about time for me to start wrapping things up and at the
same time, I want to end this one by thanking you guys for taking the
time to check my blog out and for reading this post. I do hope you
did enjoy the read and that I will have the pleasure of seeing you
back at a later point in time. Before you close the tab, why not
check me out on social media. The links are as following, my Youtube
channel (Beyond the Horizon 2.0), my blogs Facebook page (Beyond theHorizon), my Twitter (Jack White Sr), my personal Facebook page
(Jack White Sr) and my Instagram (Beyond our Horizon). I hope to see
you guys there, you might find the content that you enjoy.
As
a side note, the photos that I am using in this blog post is from my
hometown and to be honest, I felt that something from the past would
be a perfect way to kick things off. I do feel that opening my blog
again after weeks on weeks working on its content is kind of a big
deal for me personally, hope you feel somewhat the same way.
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