Once in Florida a man asked me if I lived in an igloo. I asked him if he lived under a rock.

And then there are the average Joe questions like, "Do you have running water up there?", "Where'd you buy those shorts from?", "Where are your accents?" and my alltime favorite "Where are your tennis raquets(sp?)?" (assuming that they are talking about snow shoes)

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The two fingers thing is offensive here in Britain too. Whaddaya know.

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It was the British (actually the mores o the Welsh I think) who started it.

I always like this story:

A Farmer (Canadian) was out checking of mis cattle on day when he comes across three Americans exclaiming over the size of the deer they killed. The farmer is enraged and the Americans are very confused. The farmed tells them that they owe him a thousand dollars for his cow.

Yes, they do, but the fact that I was speaking English to her should have clued her in to what language we spoke.

Ok, I might look stupid here, but don't they speak French in some parts of Canada?

That might be what she meant.

Bex

PS. The two fingers thing is offensive here in Britain too. Whaddaya know.

Well, when my dad was in Texas and he told them he was from Ontario, they asked him if he knew Avril Lavinge personally.
And when I was in England a girl asked me what language they spoke in Canada. (?)
There are more but I don't feel like posting them right now. Maybe later.

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Uptown, I know a buncha kids who went to Germany with the school this summer! A bunch of my best friends. You're telling me bout that sometime.

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Actually, the trip I was on was just with my school (Mounds View) and Irondale. A bunch of kids from Holy Angels were supposed to go, but after 9-11, the school wouldn't allow school-sponsered, international travel.

That, and my trip was in 2002.

But I can still tell you about it sometime.

When I was in Tennessee this summer, when I talked to people, they always decided it would be funny to try and impersonate a Minnesotan accent. I don't have much of one, especially compared to some people, but no one's is as bad as what the media portrays.

lmao, that "nope nothin" thing was hilarious, A2.

After reading the topic thread and then that, gosh, you people amaze me sometimes lol.


WEll, I have some funny things about my Washington, D.C. trip this past July, but you guys are gonna have to see it, plus all the pretty photos I took:

http://www.joeydauben.com/DC.htm

The Commentary tells a lot about the foreigners lol.

Uptown, I know a buncha kids who went to Germany with the school this summer! A bunch of my best friends. You're telling me bout that sometime.

Hmmm...in Hawaii people kept saying "Oh, you're Minnesotan? Must be good to be escaping the blizzards right now." I went to Hawaii in JULY. It was 20 degrees warmer in Minnesota than it was in Hawaii!

Hehe, the German lesbians thing is funny. In Germany, my friends said that the German highschool kids had no idea America had even had a civil war, or that we'd been a big slave country. Most surprising of all, they didn't think we knew what the concentration camps were.

Lol, then Scott said the German english-class teacher asked him "what is the term for someone from Mexico? Wettbacks, i believe you call them?"

And that whenever they'd write the english word for a black person they'd write n-i-g-g-e-r.

Getting beer in Germany and drinking it without my German teacher knowing. Man, that was a good trip.

A lot of the German kids wanted to know how to swear in English. And how to say "lesbian".

When I was in France, EVERYONE asked me for "American" Cigarettes. I had a cabby offer me a free ride to anywhere in France for a carton.

Also while I was there I was talking to some students and one of slapped my hand out from under me (I was supporting my head with my index and middle finger). In French to hold up those 2 fingers is like giving the middle finger here. (Long story as to why)

And in Morocco [and Spain too I think] giving a thumbs up is an insult to.
(Long story too)

I went to America on holiday when I was six.

I thought being able to eat pancakes for breakfast was funny. I still remember the exact taste of the pancakes, and the waffles… That is actually what I remember most. The food. It was amazing.

Yeah… And I thought the God channels were hilarious.

As for foreign people in Britain… Hmm well at my school we had some students visit us from a school in Kyrgyzstan, which is quite a poor country. Some people in Kyrgyzstan are still nomadic, it's a totally different way of life there.

We went to the cinema with them to see 'Spiderman' and they got really excited at the end and stood up and clapped. And they kept asking where the mountains were, because Kyrgyzstan is really mountainous, and they found it incredible how flat England is. One of them wrote she wanted to visit England because she could marry a prince, like a princess in a fairytale. Yeah… I don't know if she got quite what she was expecting…

Bex

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