Hello everybody! I wanted to write a post about curious facts about the US since I arrived from Chicago. As I said, a few weeks ago, I arrived from my first time in the US, an amazing experience. I was shocked by almost everything because things were very different from Spain or Europe, so I was saying "OMG look at this!" "Hey! Have you seen this?" like, 3453 times a day. I tell you some of the most curious things that I saw while I was there ♥
-There was fanta and coke in every imaginable flavour: lime, peach, vanilla, cherry, vanilla-cherry all together, grape, and even orange (not orange fanta, but orange coke!).
-Fast food was much cheaper than "healthy" food. And of course, soft drinks were also cheaper than water.
-Tap water, unlike in Spain (where they don't look at you very well if you ask for tap water) was free! I don't know how does it work in your country, but in Chicago restaurants, if you told the waiter "I just want water, thanks", they served you water in a giant glass with ice, and they refilled it as many times as you wanted.
-People do whatever they want to. If they want to go out in their pajamas, they did. If they wanted to sing or dance in the middle of the street, they did it... and I found that amazing.
-You could make barbacues in parks (at least, in some of them).
-Food and dishes were huge (believe, huge, or as we said "american size").
-People were so nice and open. If they liked something you were wearing, even if they didn't know you, they said it to you (a very nice woman, stopped me in the supermarket just to tell me that she loved my bag and watch) :)
-They don't know how air conditioning works, at least it doesn't seem so, because it was freezing everywhere! Really, you had to carry an extra jumper to wear it inside shops and subway because if you didn't, you could die inside because of the cold!
-And the doors... all of them (well... almost) were revolving doors.
-There was fanta and coke in every imaginable flavour: lime, peach, vanilla, cherry, vanilla-cherry all together, grape, and even orange (not orange fanta, but orange coke!).
-Fast food was much cheaper than "healthy" food. And of course, soft drinks were also cheaper than water.
-Tap water, unlike in Spain (where they don't look at you very well if you ask for tap water) was free! I don't know how does it work in your country, but in Chicago restaurants, if you told the waiter "I just want water, thanks", they served you water in a giant glass with ice, and they refilled it as many times as you wanted.
-People do whatever they want to. If they want to go out in their pajamas, they did. If they wanted to sing or dance in the middle of the street, they did it... and I found that amazing.
-You could make barbacues in parks (at least, in some of them).
-Food and dishes were huge (believe, huge, or as we said "american size").
-People were so nice and open. If they liked something you were wearing, even if they didn't know you, they said it to you (a very nice woman, stopped me in the supermarket just to tell me that she loved my bag and watch) :)
-They don't know how air conditioning works, at least it doesn't seem so, because it was freezing everywhere! Really, you had to carry an extra jumper to wear it inside shops and subway because if you didn't, you could die inside because of the cold!
-And the doors... all of them (well... almost) were revolving doors.
¡Hola a todos! Hacía tiempo que quería hacer un post de este tipo. Como ya he dicho en posts anteriores, hace algunas semanas volví de Estados Unidos, ¡mi primera vez cruzando el charco! como quien dice, y si ya hay cosas que normalmente te llaman la atención cuando llegas nuevo a un país, imaginaos esa sensación multiplicada por 1000. Os cuento algunas de las cosas más curiosas que vi en mi estancia allí:
-Había Fanta y Coca-cola de todos los sabores, sí, sí: Fanta de melocotón, de fresa, de uva... Coca-cola de naranja, de vainilla, de cereza, de vainilla y cereza a la vez...
-La comida basura era mucho mucho más barata que la comida más sana, y por supuesto, los refrescos eran más baratos que el agua embotellada.
-El agua en los restaurantes ¡es gratis! Increíble pero cierto, en vez de mirarte con cara de pocos amigos cuando pides un vaso de agua del grifo como en España, ellos si dices "no quiero nada para beber, sólo agua" te ponen agua con hielos y te rellenan el vaso tantas veces como quieras (tanto si pides un refresco como si pides agua).
-La gente hace lo que le da la real gana: gente vestida con ropa rarísima, en pijama, bailando "a tope" parado en una esquina, gente cantando por la calle...
-En los parques (o al menos en algunos) se pueden hacer barbacoas.
-La comida era tamaño XXL.
-La gente era (al menos alguna) mucho más abierta; si les gusta tu bolso y no te conocen, ¡te lo dicen! (A mí me paró una mujer muy amable en un super para decirle que le gustaba mucho mi bolso y mi reloj) :)
-El botón que regula el aire acondicionado... como si no lo conocieran. ¡El aire estaba siempre al máximo! Vaya, que era muy normal ponerte pantalones largos y rebeca para no congelarte en el metro y las tiendas.
- Y las puertas... eran (casi) todas giratorias.
