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Edited on Sun Apr-18-04 08:33 PM by Kellanved
Well, after spending almost ten days stateside (CT/NY/NJ), I've somewhat settled in back home. I miss the time and would have loved to stay longer. So many things left to see, so many things to learn, so many people to meet. I had to promise to visit Boston, and so I will do.
- College Live (It was only ten days, but still...) - the people (everyone I met was friendly, helpful and interested - not to mention extremely sorry about Bush. Even my bad English did not stop anyone) :yourock: - TeriYaki Sauce (Ok, I brought several bottles with me) - affordable clothes - Asian food(good Asian restaurants in my neighborhood have a bad habit of getting either stormed by tourists or going bankrupt) - tapioca pearls - Gourmet Heaven (hardly Gourmet, but way cool) - Supermarket pharmacies - hot sauces (while most things marked "hot", even in Asian restaurants, weren't, the Habanero sauce kept it's promise) - coffee refills - the unnamed bar in New Haven and it's cheeseburgers - good Tequila - Cinnamon chewing gum - Gas prices - juices other than orange not made from concentrate - service in shops - the politeness (haven't heard a "Kraut" the whole time - while I take no offense hearing it, I still hear "Boche" a lot in France and worse things in the UK)
Things I'm glad to have back: - traffic (no, I did not like driving stateside at all) - decent prices (five $ for Colgate toothpaste :wtf:) - bread (basically the first thing after getting home from the airport: buying some decent bread - sorry) - beer (I haven't found the brew I liked last time, as I didn't remember the brand. Harpoon was good, as were the Canadian brews, which tasted basically like the French beers. The local micro-brew sucked, as did SamAdams - and the imported German beers; there is no beer called "St Pauli Girl" in Germany) - not getting asked for change at every street corner - small supermarkets (what is the deal of having everything in ten flavors and three colors each? what about plain, unsweetened, unflavored yogurt?) - the right to loiter (thanks McDonald's 5th Avenue) - the right to drink beer in public - not getting thrown out of restaurants after finishing - TV (I haven't found a single interesting Channel; kept watching local news and C-SPAN) - Cheese - MTV showing music videos - not getting carded (it was a pain with a out-of-state ;-) ID) - painless immigration w/o people searching my suitcase (I've kept the Homeland security's "we love you " letter) - sometime soon: my old weight - Gas pumps w/o "lever" - tap water not smelling and tasting of chlorine
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