MwithCrazyBirds

After 17 hours of floating in the air plus 6 hours of snoozing in various airports, here I am, the United States. A bit tired after such long long journey really, but I’d like to drop down a few lines just to kick off this blogsite, as well as my brand new life here in America.

The first impression America gave me was: huge. I mean everything is huge, not only the lands, the vehicles, the etc. etc., but also the people… I now understand the reason that American airlines sell more first and business classes than any other country’s airlines, they just can’t fit in an economy seat… The second thing is, although a bit too early to judge, that the price level here is not so high, even if comparing with Guangzhou. Well I know I’ve made this conclusion too roughly without making much observations. But from the Minneapolis airport restaurants and cafes, which normally charge a lot more than non-airport places, things are much cheaper than those in the Uk, and frankly enough, more or less with those in China. Take a tall Mocha Frappuccino from Starbucks for instance, here it costs 3  dollars sth, it costs 3 pounds sth in the UK and around 30 sth rmb in China. Apply the exchange rate and do a simple calculation, you will find that it really is not very expensive here.

It reminds me of what England’s first impression on me. It was quite stupid though.. I remember the day I arrived at London Heathrow, then picked up by some overpriced taxi driver sent by a “Family Friend”. On the way to my high school I saw “toilet” ads everywhere, except that the “i” in “toilet” does not exist. It meant to be “to let” but I was too shallow to reckon them as “toilets without ‘i’s”… How stupid…