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After 31 years in the United States, I find myself more American than I ever expected to be, yet not so American in many ways.
My reading list
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Always the same6 days ago
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Friends from College3 years ago
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Expat/Repat Update3 years ago
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The Last Post3 years ago
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American Notes: Kit-Kats7 years ago
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Confessions of a cruiser (part 2)7 years ago
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Americanisms in British English7 years ago
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Expat (or bicultural) blogs
- A Brit Out of Water
- A Broad Abroad
- A View From England
- AliBlahBlah
- Alien in a Foreign Field
- An Englishman in Atlanta
- Big Apple, Little Britainer
- Bloody Brilliant!
- British Daffodilly
- BritishSpeak
- Crunchie Mummy
- Culturally Discombobulated
- Expatmum
- Homeschool in Italy
- Letters, postcards, notes on the fridge
- Life with Chinese Characteristics
- Miss Chicago
- Mom or Mum Wars
- Mother Hen
- Motherhood: the final frontier
- Nappy Valley
- Not from around here
- Postcards from across the pond
- Sablonneuse
- Separated by a Common Language
- She's Not From Yorkshire
- Soft in the head
- Some mothers do 'ave 'em
- The American Resident
- the part where we move to london
- Tomato, To-mah-to
- Turkish Delight
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7 comments:
SHaha. What are they called in the US? Or do you not have them at all?
Oops - typo - should read Haha.
Ha ha! Very good. Did you eventually tell them the truth about Cats Eyes or let their imagination run into over-drive.
This is so funny! My first week here in classes in England, one of my professors went on and on about Cat's Eyes and how they were a feat of English innovation. I was too embarassed to ask what they were after he went on for so long! I think we just call them "those little reflective doobers on the road."
Supposedly they do have them in the USA, but I don't remember ever noticing them here. We did explain to the kids what they are.
When we were in the UK, I noticed that cat's eyes are quite rare. Don't they put them in new roads when they build them these days? Maybe they use reflective white paint, which does the same job, or something.
Poor kitties, poor kiddies! Can only imagine what they were thinking!
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