Comments on: Weird habits developed after living abroad

By: crazy sexy fun traveler

crazy sexy fun traveler — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:56:00 +0000

I so hate all the insects and bugs and mosquitoes etc … but they love me

By: crazy sexy fun traveler

crazy sexy fun traveler — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:56:00 +0000

I so hate all the insects and bugs and mosquitoes etc … but they love me

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:41:57 +0000

Yeah, I can handle the little bugs, but big cockroaches… I think it takes much more intense, prolonged exposure to get accustomed to those.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:54:08 +0000

Great article. After months of frustration in Italy from no “Peanut Butter” of all things. I mean really, what’s with this Nutella crap!? You couldn’t pay me to buy or eat the stuff while I was there. Now that I’m back in the states you can’t get me to stop eating it. Haven’t bought a jar of PB in ages. I eat nutella for breakfast everymorning on toast and as a snack. I also had to get used to having a shower I could actually turn around in without falling out and not getting my hair conditioner confused with my body wash. At least I came back with silky smooth skin. It’s the simplest things that have so much impact. The whole bug thing would freak me out and I lived in Florida, home of the 4 inch flying cockroach!

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:45:28 +0000

After a few years of living in Taiwan the way white people looked to me changed (I myself am white, by the way) and I didn’t realize this until I came back home to the U.S. Everyone looked so similar in my home town I couldn’t believe it. The first day I was back I thought I saw my grandpa walking down the street towards me and I freaked out because we were in a city five hours away from where he lived, but as he got closer I realized he was just a generic old white guy. It took several months for me to readjust and stop staring at everyone’s huge noses and confuse all old people for my grandparents.

By: RS

RS — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:04:40 +0000

I always end up speaking and sounding like the last place I visit. What’s nice is that I come to understand the people with that particular accent when I encounter them- even after I get my american lingo back.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:10:14 +0000

“…the prices still astound me here at home.”

I left out the part where I refuse to buy $10 sunglasses because I KNOW I can get them for $1 in Togo, if I haggle hard enough.

I still have no sunglasses.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:07:01 +0000

…and many other things that I’d be happy to discuss with you in another online venue.

Actually, my perspective on the bugs is roughly unchanged – if it’s in my living space, it has to go. I didn’t even meet many new species, mostly crickets and roaches, which they’ve got lots of in Texas.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:03:14 +0000

Right then, that bio’s outdated and I’m already on my second job, thanks.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:02:19 +0000

Pam,

It took me several months to hand change to someone with my left hand without feeling self-conscious. And yes, Ghanaian street food is wonderful! Many more fried plantain chips available in Accra than in Lome.