FA+
Shop
Things that confused me years ago
8 years ago
~Eternal Loves~
when i first moved here to america there were many things that confused me:
1)English: i struggled with English years ago, im fantastic now but thats what happens when youre surrounded by a language.
2)Portion Sizes: when i lived back home and went out to eat the portion sizes were NOT as big as here in America id eat half my food and be full
3)Price: Everything here when i moved seemed so cheap! if you look at the exchange rate $1 is worth like i think its 160 RUB now so paying a dollar for imported Chocolate from home was insane for me
4)Free Refills: Blew my mind absolutely blew my mind what i remember is not getting free refills back home not even for Water!
5)Design of Money: George Washington, Abraham Lincon, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin. all of them confused me i had NO idea why dead people were printed on American money and who they were i didnt understand why green was chosen and why it wasnt colourful. Rubles are different colour per bill same with most of the World even Euros look like monopoly money
1)English: i struggled with English years ago, im fantastic now but thats what happens when youre surrounded by a language.
2)Portion Sizes: when i lived back home and went out to eat the portion sizes were NOT as big as here in America id eat half my food and be full
3)Price: Everything here when i moved seemed so cheap! if you look at the exchange rate $1 is worth like i think its 160 RUB now so paying a dollar for imported Chocolate from home was insane for me
4)Free Refills: Blew my mind absolutely blew my mind what i remember is not getting free refills back home not even for Water!
5)Design of Money: George Washington, Abraham Lincon, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin. all of them confused me i had NO idea why dead people were printed on American money and who they were i didnt understand why green was chosen and why it wasnt colourful. Rubles are different colour per bill same with most of the World even Euros look like monopoly money
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
That's actually really interesting.
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
Alot of europeans are confused by that kind of stuff
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
Yeah every now and again I'll hear something like that. But it's something that always kinda catches me off guard abit.
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
even the amount of fat people confused me i mean sure in Europe there are fat people but here the number is way higher
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
And IIIIIIIIII'm one of them XD
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
it doesnt confuse me anymore because i know how fattening American food is
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
yeah XD
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
also why they gave me so much ice in my drinks i thought it was racial profiling "Shes russian better keep her cold!"
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
Nah it's a way for restaurants to save money by giving you less amount of soda. But you can screw them over by ordering no ice XD
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
i know i started yelling at them because i thought it was meant to offend me, i grew up taught that most Americans hate us, they set it straight X3 i hate a lot of ice in my drinks it waters it down
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
yeah XD
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
i only put ice in Tea
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
nice lol
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
for a year i always bitched about the amount of ice in my drinks
charliemcgreevy
~charliemcgreevy
lol dang XD
KatAttack
~katattack
OP
yeah i was really bitchy then i learned to just say "no ice" and that worked
