1) are a huge country. Ok, this I could understand looking at a map, but I never realized what it entailed. For example, try to think of how many countries, villages, towns and places worth visiting can be reached starting from your home and driving for about two hours. Done? Here not even need all the fingers to count them. The tours on Sunday out very quickly, because you have to at least double the journey time to see "something." Hours and hours of street trees, street trees and without a house, a factory, a church. All this empty space, a little person 'worries me.
2) An American family is composed of at least 5 people. Many, many children, pregnant women, double and sometimes triple strollers. I never noticed, but films and cartoons were quite explicit on the subject (the Robinsons, The Simpsons, Family Guy, I did the last name Keaton and how those parents in blue jeans?). So many children and plenty of room in the house. Not everyone, of course, but most families have huge houses, made of wood and with a basement apartment that is true, but full or half-buried, which is often only partially furnished and used for storage, laundry room, or playroom. Lately, however, to address the economic crisis, many people arrange and decorate for rent, so as to be able to pay the mortgage. We make a special program on TV.
3) You may not sell or rent a house if it is equipped with a kitchen and a bathroom. Complete them, as always miss the bidet.
4) Health insurance is essential. I thought that if a person he was off guard, was faced with costs similar to those in Italy are paid when you decide to turn to private hospitals rather than public. I was wrong. See a specialist costs a minimum of $ 300 to a maximum of 1000. A natural birth without complications can cost from 15,000 to $ 30,000 (no, I did not put more zeros). If you do not have health coverage certain tests you just do not make them, you mark the event, but if not fixed before the day a fax comes in which insurance claims to bear all costs, we sent home. You always hope you never have to go to the emergency room, but there are many more reasons not to, I saw a person pay a bill of $ 1,600 for two samples of blood, a pill and an orange juice.
5) The schools are paying. Public ones are cheaper, but are not very concerned and if you want to "ensure" a future for your child you need to borrow to pay him a prestigious school since kindergarten. The steps between an institution and the other set are like, and unless a boy can not be distinguished by exceptional merit, perhaps in sports, difficult from a public school will graduate from Harvard. Sometimes the students themselves who contract a debt to pay for college, where the parents decide not to. After his studies, for years, a dozen, minimum, the state deducts them the loan installment from the salary.
6) If you are not a good payer in the U.S. six ruined forever. Everything works with loans and if you mess up once you've closed. My English teacher was paying his debt and a study day was terrified because he had some unexpected expenses that would not allow her to pay the installment of the month. He had to write a letter explaining the situation to the competent authorities. She got a referral for a month, after which they would have blacklisted. Point.
7) The water costs more than coke, both the restaurant and shops. Not because of the tap is good, no, no, it's disgusting. You drink continuously, even on the road and cup holder are everywhere even in the supermarket trolley. They drink everything from coffee to smoothies, i DO NOT fruit juices soda, but bottled water is considered something chic.
8) There are banners everywhere, even to us on April 25. From the roof of the building where I live I counted twenty. Patriotism here they teach at school and even in the family and then the gadgets, T-shirts, flags, songs. On July 4 the people embraced and took turns five, singing "America, America" \u200b\u200bwas like being at the stadium and that all tifassero for the same team.
9) Americans in general are polite, friendly as they say. You may find that outside a restaurant while you're deciding whether or not to enter a young mother with two children approaching to tell you that no, there do not eat well, better than the one on the side or Wisconsin. It shows at least three, so that my ingrained distrust, is convinced that he is not advertising a relative. Dispassionate advice and free compliments. The street people stop you to make an assessment on your hat or the color of your shirt. No dual purpose.
The feeling, though, is that the root of the word friendly they know very little. I hope I am wrong, but so far the desire to learn, to share have not seen it. The way I see it, friendship is not only friendly. Here is heard the concept of community: neighbors who claim that they help, but we always there, I do not perceive the true communion, it is as if everything stops in the first stage, without going over.
This paragraph could summarize it with an expression: friends, friends, friends is a .. ZZO ☺
10) The tone is much more important than words. I'll also teach at the school as "stress" the words. Sometimes the expressions are replaced with sounds. The same contraction is an example of this, they eliminate so many letters that do not emit more than a sentence, but a noise. not to mention "hmm hmm" that, at least here in DC, replacing all the "please", "figure", "for nothing", "God forbid", "thank you"! Another example is the word "terrific" which means great, great, cool, in the face of all etymology, but not in the street slang, the speaker's use of the newscast.
will I have nostalgia for the "my" Italian, but I get the impression that these expressions:
"I mean", "You know," "Really?", "Good job!", "Awesome!" Awful! "," I'm so sorry, "" You got it, "" You're welcome "," look at this! "
are many, many, of the words I hear.
What are the only ones that understand?
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