San Francisco, the 15th of May 2009
In the States vacuum cleaners are different from Finland. Here you pull the whole big machine when in Finland we only pull the tube and move the machine every once in a while. Here you get more arm muscles when vacuuming.
In Finland we don't use garbage disposals in the kitchen. They're actually quite convenient but before coming to America I had only seen them in the Flintstones movies. You know, they have an animal eating all the food waste. I'm glad that we don't have an animal for that here.
In the States you always have to add taxes on the price that's on the price tag when buying something. It doesn't apply in restaurants but there you have to tip the waiter. So I'm used to counting the price without tax and taking off some dollars so that's pretty much what the item costs in euros.
Here we never hang our clothes to dry out. People always use driers. That's a good way to use your clothes quick after washing them but I don't like it that much cause not only it makes your clothes look ugly much faster it also is such a waste of energy and money.
The insurance system here is much more complicated than in Finland. My roommate wanted to get one for herself and it took like days for her to find one and still she has to pay a lot more money than what I pay for mine back home. I think she still has to pay something when she wants to give birth unless she gets a more expensive one before that. Unless we in Finland don't have to pay anything for delivering kids into this world.
When it comes to cleaning, bleach is the thing in America. Almost all cleansing agents have bleach in it. I think it is quite efficient but it also takes colors out of your clothes. I've become familiar with that here.
In the States vacuum cleaners are different from Finland. Here you pull the whole big machine when in Finland we only pull the tube and move the machine every once in a while. Here you get more arm muscles when vacuuming.
In Finland we don't use garbage disposals in the kitchen. They're actually quite convenient but before coming to America I had only seen them in the Flintstones movies. You know, they have an animal eating all the food waste. I'm glad that we don't have an animal for that here.
In the States you always have to add taxes on the price that's on the price tag when buying something. It doesn't apply in restaurants but there you have to tip the waiter. So I'm used to counting the price without tax and taking off some dollars so that's pretty much what the item costs in euros.
Here we never hang our clothes to dry out. People always use driers. That's a good way to use your clothes quick after washing them but I don't like it that much cause not only it makes your clothes look ugly much faster it also is such a waste of energy and money.
The insurance system here is much more complicated than in Finland. My roommate wanted to get one for herself and it took like days for her to find one and still she has to pay a lot more money than what I pay for mine back home. I think she still has to pay something when she wants to give birth unless she gets a more expensive one before that. Unless we in Finland don't have to pay anything for delivering kids into this world.
When it comes to cleaning, bleach is the thing in America. Almost all cleansing agents have bleach in it. I think it is quite efficient but it also takes colors out of your clothes. I've become familiar with that here.
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