What I Learned // America Edition

As with my other What I Learned in Korea posts, I loved being able to record little details and things that happened. Then when I returned to America from Korea, for a visit, so many things came flooding back to me and so many new things had happened there! It really is an amazing experience to go back home after being somewhere so different for so long. I did not want to forget these things, so I recorded them. Most of them are ridiculous. Enjoy!This is a list of musings, of observations, of hard and fast facts, of opinions, of completely made up fairy tales. These are things I have learned or was reminded of on my recent visit back to America after moving to Korea a year ago. Things about myself, things about America and things about things. Believe them or not, I believe them to be true.

• Biscuits, Potatoes and Starches. Oh my!
• Target, the land of beauty.
• Wal-Mart, the land of stuff.
• I need all the stuff.
• Cars are a blessing and a curse.
• No one walks in America. Why?
• Air conditioning. Because one's body should never truly know what season it is.
• Mom. <3
• The land where sweet tea flows like water.
• No wonder immigrants get confused at international restaurants. Literally nothing tastes like the real thing...
• You mean there is a store where you can buy everything you need, at the same time and drive right up to it and then right up to your house in a car to unload it all?!
• We are popular in America.
• It is quite saddening to go from being a millionaire won spender to being a normal dollar holder.
• Men's pants crotches are at the normal level.
• "Ill just stop and pick one up on the street on my way"...oh wait.
• America really needs to see the beauty in street vendors.
• SODA....
• Fried stuff.
• Sake Express...
• I am drawn to every water source, no matter where we are in the world. Lakes. Springs. Rivers. Creeks. Oceans. Pools.
• Bathtubs.
• Hey! Lets all flush our toilet paper! SCORE!
• Maybe I don't always like it that everyone speaks english....Sometimes it's nice to tune everything out and only be in my head or to be able to just focus on my conversation.
• Clearly I need to pay better attention to the news. This Donald Trump is for reals?!?!
• "Everything has changed so much. I don't understand the sugar packets on the tables at restaurants anymore" -me looking at the different coloring/branding of the sugar packets on tables at restaurants.
• I need Kimchi.
• Dear American Satellites. Get better internet please and thank you.
• America, you are the only place in the world that makes you take off your shoes while going through airport security anymore. #getwiththeprogram
• Apparently I am now terrified of driving.
• TSA agents really do have hearts and really do want you to eat pancakes. (bless you nice man who let us on the plane even though our bags were too heavy with bisquick!)
• America, I will see you again.

Want more of This is What I've Learned but the Korean Version?! Check out Vol 1, Vol 2 , Vol 3, Vol 4