Finally, we arrived at Hershey, Pennsylvania after 26 hours long flight. We thanked God that He made our journey smooth. For all the flights were delayed. However, somehow, all flights arrived at the destination earlier than schedule. So, we managed to get on all our connecting flights.
Our rented place here is fully furnished and has a big garden. We like the place. It’s very convenience for us to walk the supermarket to do our groceries and also for me to walk to faculty to work.
Anyway, hopefully the novelty of new place and doing new stuff will not wear out. Did I mention that we can see rabbits, squirrels and fireflies in our garden. They are everywhere, especially the squirrels. Hopefully, this will not be a pest later on.
Anyway, we learned new things too that we are here and some of those which give us a ‘jolt’ to our system.
Firstly, almost all Chinese food is is sweetened. Fried noodles is sweet and they eat together with rice. I can’t imagine how sweet the ‘Sweet and Sour’ pork will be.
Secondly, most American products are salted. Bread is salted too. How to eat that? I wake up so many night thirsty for water. AND their Chocolate powder is salted too!
How to drink that? Imagines drininking milo with salt in it! Yucks!
Thirdly, the Chilly sauce…Gosh...American take ketchup only. We are so happy to see Chilly sauce and bought one.
However, later we found out their Chilly sauce don’t have Chilly as one of their ingredient. But guess what they use to produce that? TOMATO puree!
Why do they need to call it the Chilly sauce when it’s sweet and not a hinge of spicy-ness too it and it’s made from TOMATO! We ended making our own by adding Tabasco sauce to our ‘Chilly sauce’!
Fourth, the whole house is carpeted. I know we will need this later on in the winter and we have to get used to it. However, being an Asian, first thing I thought of when going for our initial shopping is to buy a mop so that we can clean the house. But, where can I mop now except our kitchen. However, now we clean the house using the vacuum cleaner.
Oh…they wear their shoes into their home. How can you do that when you wear your shoe everywhere you go and you step on God-knows-what and then, you just walk into the bedroom which is fully carperted with shoes on?
Sun here during summer rises around 5am and set at 9pm. We are still learning to adapt to that especially in the morning when we wake up too early. But we like it at night when we can still walk to the supermarket at 7 and it’s bright when we come back.
I think there will be more to come as we learn to adapt and stay here. But every moment of it, we are also missing home so much.
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