Life in USA as a Work&Travel Student

1. Arriving in the USA

soaking in the freedom

getting stuck in Passport control line for like… forever..

2. Taking photos of everything…

Literally everything, trash can, toilet, stop sign, sky, cars, stairs, coffee

3. First meal in USA

You gonna miss your mother's meals

Be ready for fast food and different tastes

2 months later….

Breakfast: Cereal Lunch: Sandwich Dinner: Some frozen crap

4. One of our missions is to collect 50 state quarters

I still have one missing coin :(

5. Jet lag for a week

6. It’s the first day of work and you don't know what is going on

After 2 weeks....

7. When you get your first paycheck

8. When the friends trying so hard to pronounce our name

9. New friends, so many new friends

or

10. Memorizing people’s name was hard

especially the one that we’ve never seen in our English textbook before (e.g. Jacqueline, Trevor, Mckay, Cameron, Juliana, Dorothy)

11. Our excuse when we don't understand what the say

English is hard, ya know.

12. We tell about our home country in every convos

"Yeah, we have same in my country, Yeah yeah it is better in my country"

13. When people asked us “how is going?”, we be like…

“I’m not going anywhere”

14. 1 yard, 10 feet, 3 ounces , 2 pounds, and 74 Fahrenheit are just confusing

15. Smile and Nod = We don’t understand what you just said

and we hope that was not a question

16. And all the slangs… YOLO SWAG

Then we discovered Urban Dictionary

17. Homesickness

we miss everything from our home, parents, siblings, third cousin, pets, trees, to water

18. Trying to Skype home, but no one is online because it is 3am in our home country

19. Last month of exchange program

we are so excited to go home

20. And that’s when we forget to buy gifts for our family and friends

it is so expensive tho.. 5 bucks for keychain

21. Travelling in USA..

22. It Is Hard to Say Good Bye