Almost American

Back in the fall of 1985, when I had only been in the United States a few weeks, I read a copy of Vanity Fair magazine that I'd found i...

My DH forwarded this image to me recently. I think he remembered me telling him about  NFAH's comments on the topic!  

I'm trying to remember what time lunch (dinner) was served when I was in school. I'm pretty sure it was 12 noon. My secondary school...

The children were so stunned by these signs at the side of the road in the UK that they took pictures of them.

It was a strange feeling to be back in the UK after so long (over 4 years) away. It didn't exactly feel like home any more but it wasn...

It must be nearly Thanksgiving! Apparently the turkey shooting is more organized than I thought - I had visions of people just wandering ou...

I do like looking through the list of of search terms used by people who found my blog. Searches for Smarties vs M&Ms seem to have fin...

Not from Around Here pointed me in the direction of an excellent post on depression and culture shock on An American Bedu's blog . The...

Would you emigrate (would you have emigrated) if you knew the reality of the country you were moving to? I think for those of us who moved f...

Quite by chance I ended up watching the second part of Britz on BBCAmerica last night. Shortly before the end I was pleased to discover tha...

It took me years to feel comfortable ordering a sandwich here in the US. I hated being asked "How do you want that?" Umm - you mea...

As evidenced by my blogroll, I love to read about other people's ex-pat experiences. I have a lot of ex-pat Brits listed here, but that...

I was very cruel to my husband today. DS had a birthday party to go to and I suggested to DH that he might like to take DS. He knew that the...

I remember being shocked in my first few days at university here to see the amount of food and paper serviettes (napkins) that were wasted a...