Being in a Foreign Land
So, I haven't been here for 20 minutes yet and I'm already realizing how tough it is not to be in your native land. I was going to call home on a payphone, and it took me forever to try to figure out how to use it. I had no idea what the U.S country code was and no idea how to even begin. I never had to use a payphone I always had a cell phone. It kept telling me "insert credito." I was inserting quarters and it wasn't working. I was getting frustrated, and just when I was about to go get help, I realized that everyone around me was speaking in Spanish. Which meant I wasn't in America, which meant everything works differently, which meant the payphone didn't take American currency. Something as simplistic as currently can make a huge difference.
Its already weird enough that everyone is speaking Spanish. I know what they are saying, but it's just bizarre. I keep forgetting to use Spanish, which is weird because I have no problem using it in the U.S. The people here look at us (My class and I) like we are foreign. Then I say to myself, "We are foreign." Its just hard to grasp the concept of being different, being somehow ignorant to the land.
On one of the immigration sheets I filled out, it asked my nationality, and as I was about to put African-American, I realized that they didn't care, all they wanted to know was the I was American. They just group us all in one category. Strange. Could it be that us Americans are all the same? One more question, why cant most Americans grasp that concept?
