I am Australian

Last Wednesday, August 13th, I became Australian: After some long weeks and months of waiting for the 'bureaucracy' to do its work, the day was finally there. I can't say we were excited; more happy to get it over and done with. And so we did. There was a brief ceremony in the Laidley Council Chamber during Council meetings (gemeenteraad). There were six more 'candidates' and we each took the pledge to stay loyal to Australia etc etc...