1. Obesity
2. Price of food
3. Portion sizes of food (refer back to #1 now)
4. Green grass and trees everywhere (we were finally out of the pavement jungle)
5. Fresh(er) air, particularly in the BWCA
6. Cost of gas
7. Driving on the right side of the road
8. Drinking water from the tap & not having to have a water bottle in the bathroom to use for our toothbrushes & rinse water (I can't tell you how many times I looked around for a water bottle in the bathroom)
9. Actually having to drive everywhere instead of being "chauffeured around" by a taxi
10. People's names weren't objects, places, or movie characters ie) Pop, Top, Ice, Jar-jar Binx, Sand, Land, Guitar, Candy, etc.
11. Lack of humidity, despite many Minnesotans complaining about how hot/humid it was (as I was wearing jeans and long sleeved shirt... it's all relative)
12. Name-person confusion... read the following phone conversation:
Me: Hello?
Friend: Hey, this is James
Me: James? (thinking: James, the MS computer teacher in Thailand??) Uhm... how'd you get this number??!? (we had just recently bought a temporary phone)
Friend: From Eric
Me: Uhm, ok. Wait, James who?
Friend: James K. Is Mike there? We want him to play softball on Sunday.
Me: Ooooooooooooh! Softball MN James!
Friend: Uhm... yes.
Me: Yeah, hold on, here's Mike.
13. The 80's apparently being back in... stretch pants, side ponies and all.
14. Bathtubs... not that I took a bath or anything, but it was nice not to have water go ALL OVER the bathroom floor and then have to squeegee it down the drain
15. No one thinking that I'm Thai and never getting some foreign language menu handed to me.
16. People putting the emphasis on the same syllable as me. For example, I would say "tower" with the natural emphasis on TOWer. Thais, however, would say, toWERRRR (and really draw out the "ER" part.
Friend: Hey, this is James
Me: James? (thinking: James, the MS computer teacher in Thailand??) Uhm... how'd you get this number??!? (we had just recently bought a temporary phone)
Friend: From Eric
Me: Uhm, ok. Wait, James who?
Friend: James K. Is Mike there? We want him to play softball on Sunday.
Me: Ooooooooooooh! Softball MN James!
Friend: Uhm... yes.
Me: Yeah, hold on, here's Mike.
13. The 80's apparently being back in... stretch pants, side ponies and all.
14. Bathtubs... not that I took a bath or anything, but it was nice not to have water go ALL OVER the bathroom floor and then have to squeegee it down the drain
15. No one thinking that I'm Thai and never getting some foreign language menu handed to me.
16. People putting the emphasis on the same syllable as me. For example, I would say "tower" with the natural emphasis on TOWer. Thais, however, would say, toWERRRR (and really draw out the "ER" part.
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