For the past year, I’ve been a Brand Ambassador for HIP2B², an awesome brand started by South African entrepeneur Mark Shuttleworth.

Although I’ve travelled to a few places in the world before, my stay in Germany the past 7 weeks has been the first on which I tasted true independence.

Who would have thought that 45 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his ‘I have a Dream’ speech, America would have its first black president? It’s quite astounding how things sometimes turn out.