Behind the Wall

by Dame DJ

Moving overseas, starting again or experiencing another culture is something many of us dream about, but very few actually do. Dame DJ wrote 'Behind the Wall' with the objectivity of an English woman moving into a luxury gated golf community in Florida for the first time, but isolated from her friends and culture. She learnt a lot. The USA ‘use the same words, but the sentences have different meanings’ and words 'we are divided by a common language' rang in her ears as all was revealed...