moving to america

[Wyld Blu 35]

hahahhahaha! oh my god, we have a pot of chicken/potato something or other sitting on the stove right now at home...and rice...always rice.

YEAH!!

Well, to be fair, my fiance is still in Holland. But we have agreed to try foods from each other's country on our various visits. I tried eel. Sounded disgusting, tasted pretty good.

All I wanted him to try was a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Well, they don't mix chocolate and peanut butter in Holland apparently. And he could not and still cannot wrap his mind around trying this MOST GROSS thing ever. LOL...I tried to tell him it is one of the most popular candies in the US. It was a no go. It isn't that he doesn't like the occasional sweet, it was the very IDEA of mixing chocolate with peanut butter!

-Blu-(can you IMAGINE???)

[wayno 9]

As mentioned, uncovered foods in refrigerator and food sitting out all day, when she cooks it is usually early afternoon even though I may not get home till 7 or 8.

Air conditioning, better now but at first she would leave the doors open while the AC was on.

Sliding glass doors-------need I say more

[trillium13 84]

All I wanted him to try was a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Well, they don't mix chocolate and peanut butter in Holland apparently. And he could not and still cannot wrap his mind around trying this MOST GROSS thing ever. LOL...I tried to tell him it is one of the most popular candies in the US. It was a no go. It isn't that he doesn't like the occasional sweet, it was the very IDEA of mixing chocolate with peanut butter!

Hilarious. My hubby thinks peanut butter is pretty bizarre too, although he will eat the occasional Reese's. I have to give him credit though, even though he's kind of disgusted by it, he still makes me PB&J sandwiches for my lunches.

[Kar98 0]

I'm glad I had lived in the US for almost a decade before I've met the beloved

Things that confused me when I first arrived:

Peanut butter.

Payphones.

The phone number system.

Sealed beam headlights.

American Bread.

Analog cellphones.

Watered down beer in grocery stores.

Liquor stores.

Drive-thru banks.

American cheese.

Grocery baggers.

AM talk radio.

Meal times.

Sweet potatoes.

...

[trinket 30]

I'm glad I had lived in the US for almost a decade before I've met the beloved

Things that confused me when I first arrived:

Peanut butter.

Payphones.

The phone number system.

Sealed beam headlights.

American Bread.

Analog cellphones.

Watered down beer in grocery stores.

Liquor stores.

Drive-thru banks.

American cheese.

Grocery baggers.

AM talk radio.

Meal times.

Sweet potatoes.

...

Meal time is something I am still not adjusted to. Sounds weird but me and husband take our dinner at different time, he takes it around 4:30 pm to 5 pm while I take mine around 8:00 pm. On weekends we eat our dinner together, there is no specific time on weekends, could be 7:00 pm or it could be 11:00 pm.

Of people saying how the foreigner keeping food outside for long or keeping uncovered food in the fridge, well its actually opposite in our case. My husband sometime put uncovered food in the fridge and I always have to yell talk to him about it I think its more of a being careless thing with him than anything to do with culture.

He finds it weird that I refuse to drink cold milk, I am more used to drinking warm milk, I hate milk but when once in a blue moon I do drink milk, I do heat it up a bit

[Kar98 0]

Meal time is something I am still not adjusted to. Sounds weird but me and husband take our dinner at different time, he takes it around 4:30 pm to 5 pm while I take mine around 8:00 pm. On weekends we eat our dinner together, there is no specific time on weekends, could be 7:00 pm or it could be 11:00 pm.

Well, I was used to have the main meal of the day around noon, and just sandwiches or a light warm snack at night.

[Chamy and Gatita 3]

I love reading all of your posts!! Thank you!

A few more from my hubby-

at first he totally rejected the idea of talking to voice mail or a machine- fortunately he is beginning to relax on that a bit. I mean, he is trying to get a job now but he wouldn't return messages with potential offers (just deleted --OMG!!! you what!!!) The only way to describe his reaction to our ways with phones was offended and disgusted! He actually would say, fine, I will go back to my country to work! Thank God he is adjusting -- it seems so innocuous and basic to us doesn't it?

then there are things that he just never heard of before, so explaining it at first is like explaining a new color. Like automatic garage doors. today an elderly neighbor called me at work, asking for help bringing her garbage from the house to the can, and the can to the street. i called my hubby at home and he gallantly offered to help--- but he could not understand how she could open the garage door if she wasn't feeling strong enough to lift the garbage? explaining that it's automatic or that she uses a remote met with the same question, repeated again- but how...? i dont know, maybe they don't use automatic doors where he is from.

We have some friends over this weekend and us American wives had a few great laughs together about our foreign husbands. We found quite a few similarities in how they get ticked off by strange things-- and how it's been trying to teach them how to drive! (OMG!!!) But we also talked about how great it is to have them- how they both cook and clean and take care of us and make us laugh and love us more than anything.

[TheKims 0]

LOL @ him asking how can she be so weak that she can't take out her own trash. But she lifted the garage door on her own.

[childress_london 3]

My USC husband had it easy I feel. I take care of paying utility bills/rent in time, groccery shopping on my own, making food, giving him clean shirts to wear and a clean bed to sleep on to.............basically he is very happy to have got a controlling dominating tyrant of a wife, who controls every aspect of what he eats, wears and breathes (yes I also buy his cigarettes)

You go girl!

[TBoneTX 44,679]

quote]K., tell C. that Americanos usually don't leave food in pots on the stove for days & days and continue eating out of the pots.

does your C also never clean the science experiments out of the fridge?

C... er, si, man. Even the cat's litterbox cannot rival it, and the box of baking-soda that I put inside the fridge ran out screaming, begging to be deported, si man. In addition, I continue to have to UNLOAD the dishwasher, scrub the silverware, reload everything so that there's a fighting chance of its becoming clean, and empty the thing the next morning, si man.

[TBoneTX 44,679]

...us American wives ... talked about how great it is to have them- how they both cook

Si, man

and clean

Say WHAT, si man?! Maybe it's just the foreign husbands?

[BermyCat 1]

Cheers to all the USCs going through the adjustment process with us immigrants!

I'm so thankful that my husband is so very understanding. I know my meltdowns and observations on life in the US sometimes upset him him but he still managed to hold me and tell me it'll all be ok.

~ Catherine

[Kinito_2k3 5]

Cheers to all the USCs going through the adjustment process with us immigrants!

I'm so thankful that my husband is so very understanding. I know my meltdowns and observations on life in the US sometimes upset him him but he still managed to hold me and tell me it'll all be ok.

~ Catherine

My wife (the USC) has been brilliant at trying specialties from my country:

- Snails

- Eels

- Tartare (raw beef )

- Foie Gras (half cooked or non cooked duck liver)

- Veal liver

- Raw oysters

- bloody t-bones and other bloody thick beef cuts

- Roasted lamb (like pulled pork if you will, but stronger taste)

- "disgusting cheeses" such as "Roquefort" which is like your blue cheese but much stronger and moldier

- Morbier (cheese with a layer of ashes in it the middle)

- tripes (digestive system of the beef => colon, stomach)

- rabbit

- pork head, tongue, feet

- bull's balls soup

So far, she loved everything Sounds good to you?

Cheers

Edited May 26, 2009 by Kinito_2k3

[wayno 9]

Airplane ticket from Costa Rica to MD---about 400 bucks.

Rental car from Baltimore to Ocean City---about 60 bucks.

The look on my wife's (then girfriend) face as a tray full of MD steamed crabs got dumped on the brown paper covered table---PRICELESS!

This winter I may have to get her to sit with me in a tree stand. I could only imagine what she would think of that in December. She was all bundled and freezing last SEPTEMBER while I took her surf fishing.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

I'm glad I had lived in the US for almost a decade before I've met the beloved

Things that confused me when I first arrived:

Peanut butter.

Payphones.

The phone number system.

Sealed beam headlights.

American Bread.

Analog cellphones.

Watered down beer in grocery stores.

Liquor stores.

Drive-thru banks.

American cheese.

Grocery baggers.

AM talk radio.

Meal times.

Sweet potatoes.

...

Payphones?