Fola and I both recently immigrated from South Africa in the last 5 years. Me 4 years ago and he; 8 months ago or something to that effect. While he isnt South African; he and I both share the experience of having to transition from our home countries (a) and both having transferred from South Africa in particular; we shared some of; if not all the same sort of cultural surprises when we entered the new world we chose by moving to the U.S. when we did and for the reasons we did.