My departure from OM

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

'cos I like them.

[Rhona]

Gummi Bears - are they related to the Care Bears?

[Michael Alexander]

Me tooo...... Gummi Berry Juice all round...I'm paying!

[Cherry (Alcock)]

LOVE the Gummie bears - okey dokey dukey!

[Richard Opperman]

S...........T..........I.........C.........K TO THE TOPIC!!

[Rhona]

We never stick to the topic - must be an O'mund thing...... 

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

ooooh Rhona you in twouble, don't mess with our Richard,his like the mafia

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

what was the topic richard ???? i can see gummi bears ....and smurfs......none of those 2 were ever my kind of thing.......i remember the day i left O/M, i was excited to be going home to but also sad to be leaving all my friends and especially nicolene....she came over to say bye to me and gave me a bible as a leaving gift which i still have to this day..and how we cried....i think we both knew we would never ever see each other again....and then 40 years later we did.......gosh my eyes are stinging while im writing that lol.....just thinking how emotional it will be walking bakc down that very same street with her 42 years later :emot78:

[Michael Alexander]

Bev, How old were you when you left?

[Patricia Lotte]

I don't have vivid memories of our departure from Oranjemund coz we first moved to Cape Town (where we stayed for a little over a year) before moving back to France. Felt like we weren't going too far, so it wasn't 'goodbye', but rather 'au revoir'. But the day we left SA, that's when it hit me that I wouldn't be going back to Oranjemund. I remember the drive to Cape Town airport. We had a convoy of several cars with friends who were there to say goodbye. I was in a car with Raymond Gonzales (the son) and all I remember is staring out the window and bawling my eyes out with Pink Floyd's 'Another brick in the wall' in the background. Now I can't listen to that song without getting all teary eyed  :emot78:

Then, in November 2004, there I was flying into Oranjemund airport 20 years later, and it just felt like I was back home again! The best felling in the world!

[georg ruf jr.]

And I wonder what I would feel like traveling to OM

[Keith Margetts]

Somehow, I don't think I ever really left Oranjemund . . . it is still so very fresh in my mind!!

Did "go" a few times . . . 1972 to the army, then during the great university years from 1973 to 1976, I used to only come back once or twice a year . . . finally "left" in 1976 . . . only to return as a De Beers employee for a weeks course (from Kimberley) in 1986 . . . was a trip down memory lane!!

I miss my friends, I miss the lost "loves", I miss the lazy pondok days at the Lissers, I miss the braais at the beach . . . ahhhhh $#!t!!

That Canadian Guy,
Keith.

[Yvette Kroukamp (Biccard)]

My departure was very sad actually, after my 3rd extension to stay on from the then GM, Keith Whitelock, I had to pack up and leave. My Dad, having retired a year and half before. So loaded my few belongings, some old duck and her canary in a huge cage that took up half the backseat. Bless her, she kept me awake, chatting. Cant remember who she was. Set off in my red golf, with black bonnet(why?). Began my trek away from Omund, probably one of the saddest times of my life.

regards,

[Michael Alexander]

You can come back now...it's safe Paula has gone....  :emot19:

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

You can come back now...it's safe Paula has gone....  :emot19:

Ja Mike, but they all know that you are still there!!