This post is for the honor of the first day of school after Christmas vacation. I'll be listing down 8 things that I learnt about America while visiting there.
1. America is so damn big
Yes I have seen America before on map. Yes I know it looks like million times bigger on map than Finland. Still I really never expected it to be so big.
We mostly were just at the state of California. So we didn't even explore that "big" are. It makes me dizzy to to even thinking of exploring the whole America. It would take for ever. It's like visiting in every country in Europe - twice.
And it's not just the country that is big. Everything else there is big too. But more about that later.
2. They sell the clothes that fit perfectly my style
I mean really. Why can't they sell stuff like this in Finland? I loved the clothes there. And they weren't too expensive either. It was nice to buy some new dresses and lots of T-shirts. If I was supposed to decided would I rather live in USA or Finland based on what kind of clothes they sell I would move to America. It would simply just "So long Finland!". But because there is lot of other things that effect to that thing I will rather stay in Finland.
3. The holiday decorations are crazy
The decorations are so bright and big and many colored. It's like all the neighbors have competition of who can have the most decorations in the house. Well it's basically that either they had big and bright decorations or they didn't have decorations at all. I could never imagine at finding something like this from Finland. And we love Christmas - Santa Claus even lives here!
I guess it's just easier to put all the lights and decorations when it's warm and there is no snow or anything like that. I would never put up this much decorations to my house. But I must raise hat for all the people who did. You really had to spent time with it.
4. Meal sizes... Really this big?
I just don't how to describe it. And I didn't have enough good pictures to show it either. I guess the best sentence tp describe this is that I never, even once, were able to eat my whole meal in America. And let's not even talk about how half of the restaurants are hamburger restaurants.
Once there I ordered half of chicken salad, and really 1/4 would have been enough for me. I don't even want to imagine how big the whole salad would have been. In the same time I felt myself so rude for not eating the whole meals. But I couldn't help it, since I'm not used to eat that much. It was way too much for me. If someone really eats that big meals twice a day... I can't even comment that.
Really the best meal that I ate there was grilled salmon. It was like the freshest and it didn't contain so much grease than all the other things. It was simply just nice change for all those burgers, pizzas, ribs and pizzas. I can't imagine myself eating anything like that in many weeks now, yuck.
5. Sweet breakfasts
Another one of food, since I'm friend of good food and when I'm not satisfied I will talk about it. There was actually anything wrong about the breakfasts there. It just that... There weren't anything else to eat than sweet things, like pancakes, muffins, pop tarts... The thing that wasn't so sweet was bagel, but there wasn't even ham to put on that bagel. All the other time I tried my best to avoid all the sweet things because if I would eat more that I would just feel sick.
I don't know is this just fact that is at hotels that they serve sweet breakfasts and that normal people actually get to eat something not so sweet also. But if the another option would be sausages and bacon I wouldn't be happy either. I just would wish more fruits to the breakfasts. What I really love in Europe is that almost anywhere you travel if you are staying in hotel you will get lots of different fruits.
In the other hand I also have to say that they server really delicious orange juice everywhere in America. It was the highlight of breakfasts there.
6. Glamour isn't that bright as it seems in TV
This sounds so negative. But I think it doesn't matter what place is shown in TV, it doesn't look that glamours when you actually go there.
Hollywood wasn't as cool and clean and all the other things that I expected. When it's shown in TV it looks so bright and dazzling and just amazing. When you go there as person it's just normal street. Street where is lots of tourist and people who are dressed up as super heroes and some movie character. There is also people who will try to get you to star house tour. I just hated it how I couldn't walk in peace. Well I shouldn't even had expected that.
Despite of what I said about Hollywood, it was one of my favorite places where we visited. It wasn't bad experience. I really had fun day, looking all the stars and shopping at the stores. It was so much fun!
We arrived to Las Vegas at evening so it was dark and all the lights were one. They were so bright and interesting looking. It looked exactly the same that I had imagined. Then next day it looked like any other city. At daylight it didn't look like much. It just had funny looking hotels and big buildings and one big street where everything was.
7. Americans really don't know anything about Finland.
Okay maybe they do know about Angry birds or something like that. But as simply thing as where Finland is, most of them didn't have a clue. Many people asked us where are we from. When we told that we are from people many of them looked confused because it didn't tell much to them. Then we told that it's in norther Europe and they looked like they understood it better.
Some waiter even said to us "You speak still English there, right?". We laughed and said no, we speak Finnish. The waiter then was really confused where had we learnt English then.
Well I can't blame them really. Finland really is so small compared to America and maybe Americans have already lot of things that they need to know about their country. I don't think that Finland is their priority interest.
8. One last thing...
America is actually pretty cool place, so if you ever have a chance I would say just go for it. It just something worth to see. All the Americans should tour around America too. We met one young woman, who was probably 25, and she said she has never even visited at Los Angles, even though she lived in small town near to it. I thought it was really interesting since me at the age of 17 have been traveling around the Europe a lot and now even visited at America.
Reasons why you should visit in America:
The people are super friendly and social. It was nice to talk with them. I really enjoyed it.
Even though I said bad things about food, it basically is pretty good. You just need to be aware of the meal sizes and stuff like that.
The nature is amazing. Because America is so big there is lot of different things in nature too to see.
They sell lots of great stuff there.
It's just something that you need to do once in a lifetime.
So this was kind of closing post about America then. I hope no one will feel offended by it, it was just so different for me. The school started today and future looks unclear... Because I'm still so tired. I even fell a sleep today at the music lesson. Well I hope this shall pass soon and I will get to sleep better this night,
I hope everyone is going back to work or to school with energized mind! Try to stay positive.
Mari
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