YOO YES!
(As Whatshisname-tightypants used to say)
It's such a brilliant place! Ok, so far at least. Everything is so different here. And so CLEAN :D(which itself is enough to win my approval:P)
Here are 5 things I love about living here-
1. The way people here talk. It's so.....cute!:P For want of a better word. I asked a cop for directions once and when I went up to him he goes "Talk to me" and I'm thinking "ooh, suave!" :D(the cop was good looking, by the way:P) and then he gives me directions like "Go through that turn pike, go left and then straight and you don' wanna stop"
:D
2. The shops!! AAAAAAHHHH!!!!
Where do I start?? I find the grocery stores and pharmacies exciting! By the way, I found beer in a pharmacy; isn't that weird? Oh, I could waste hours in a supermarket. It's crazy, the sheer variety of stuff. And the clothes are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo darn AMAZING! Er but kind of expensive :( sigh.I'm going to get rich someday...just you wait!
3.FOOD.
I swear if it wasn't for all the walking, I would have put on like 10 pounds by now, in just a week. Especially with my partiality to Oreo mcFlurries :D, not to mention fries, which people seem to eat very large servings of. Portioning everywhere is huge. A medium sized popcorn is really large, a 'snack size' ice cream will screw up your dinner for sure and their regular cokes are like 500 ml or something.
So here, there are like two extremes- either people eat cheeseburgers, fries, coke and ice cream or they go total health-crazy with the fat-free and organic everything. That's another thing-buying food at the supermarket is never a simple process unless you're used to it. Everything comes in fat-free/low-fat(2%,1% etc)/organic/multi-grain or some other alternative. Yeesh!
Buying milk was never so mentally taxing!
4. I love how they put up signs and public service notices everywhere and try to make stuff simple for people, like at the subway stations and even inside the trains. I like how they have provisions everywhere for the disabled and people with strollers and prams(there are a LOT of these).
There's a park here, close to where I'm staying which is for dogs to run/play in(there are a LOT of dogs here, people seem to like to put them in their bags and carry them around). There's a sign at the gate which says "Dogs not allowed without owners" :P I'm not quite sure if that sign is of any use!
5. I love the weather! It's great here, especially after Chennai's horrid humidity. The sun sets around 8 in the evening. No, I'm not kidding. :D I feel so much better, I'm sleeping 9 hours everyday! It's been so long since I did that, I don't even remember. I'm eating fruits and cereal for breakfast(big nice ripe peaches, strawberries, plums, red juicy watermelon :D and count chocula cereal:D:D), walking a lot and I'm out like a light before 12. Yes, before 12. It's like magic.
:)
More later,