- the football being talked about uses a round ball
- the holidays celebrated are different than yours
- you constantly get asked for your passport
- its hard to find a hamburger- even a bad one
- eating with your fingers is the norm -regardless what is on the plate
- the movies in the theaters come from Bollywood
- cricket is more popular than baseball
- you are an immigrant
- you are a yank and find all of the toilet paper sucks
- the bartender stares blankly when you order a Coors
- gas isn't sold by the gallon
- you spell color and favorite without the "u" everyone else uses
- you are one of these guys ---->
- David Hasselhoff is a popular entertainer
- The Hoover is in a cupboard on the first-floor landing.
- you can only order beer or ask where the bathroom is wherever you are
- you automatically want to drive on the wrong side of the road
- your accent is different from everyone else
- street signs look like this
Occasionally there is a song that is in a foreign language that becomes a huge hit in another country or countries - just such a song makes my all time topp 10 lost whenever I make it up. The other 9 may change but this song is always on the list -
and then there is this -
Even being a foreigner does not stop one from embracing music - I am certain Lin feels the same way.
Simply fantastic. Exhaustive and as usual with the inevitable music thrown in and thoroughly entertaining. Not only Lin, even I feel that being a foreigner does not stop one from embracing music.
ReplyDeleteNice job, S-man. when you're right, you're right. Although I once had to watch a Japanese Valkyrie yell "my heart", and,even though every syllable was perfectly correctly pronounced, made a grab at her mid-section, since she thought the text was that she was being stabbed. She got a standing ovation, though. Life in a foreign country.
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