So when I first arrived in the States, I started making lists of all the weird differences I noticed. Today is Part One – The things I did not like.<\/p>\n
Sugar or honey being in everything! (sultanas, cereal, bread, etc) So when I first arrived in the States, I started making lists of all the weird differences I noticed. Today is Part One – The things I did not like. Sugar or honey being in everything! (sultanas, cereal, bread, etc) The weather in DC being freezing cold (having to wear gloves just to go outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,256],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-culture-shock","tag-usa"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["culture shock<\/a>","usa<\/a>"],"unlinked":["culture shock<\/span>","usa<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"6","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 20 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 4.11.2005","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 4.11.2005 10:27 am","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008 3:55 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe weather in DC being freezing cold (having to wear gloves just to go outside my house!) or stinkingly hot and humid (sweat dripping from every pore, without me even moving)
\nCars having indicators included with the brake light, so they are red, and hard to see – if people actually use them that is (saves money)
\nThe money being paper, and all the same size and colour
\nStill having one cent coins<\/a> (pah!)
\nThe real estate system involving a ridiculous number of people
\nClimbing gyms using tape instead of coloured holds for routes
\nTap water having chlorine in it – as a result, newly washed clothes smell like swimming pool
\nRoads having numbers and directions instead of signs to places, and names
\nPeople still being allowed to smoke where you’re eating
\nGreasy American food
\nThe lack of birds in Winter
\nLousy selection of chocolate
\nSneaky taxes being added onto the shelf price
\nDifficulty finding good vegetarian food
\nThe unorganised and messy garbage system
\nThe evil non-working plugs that are incorporated into the sink, so you can’t buy a functioning plug to replace it
\nThe pizza
\nHaving to pay individually for ingredients on pizza
\nSo many places being closed on Sundays (including Saigon Cafe, damn them)
\nThe Mars Bars are called Milky Ways, and they’re absolute rubbish
\nThe Snickers don’t taste as good either
\nThe lack of an automated computer banking system – so you have to use cheques for everything!\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"