three years across the pond
September 25, 2008 5 Comments
Tomorrow, I will have been living in America for exactly three years. Just wanted to note. It was, I won’t pretend, a shock of a move at first, leaving behind family and friends (and match of the day), but I think I’ve kept busy. I wrote a weekly column on my old blog called “from the us of eh”, describing my initial thoughts about this new place I lived in. I draw those thoughts now, mostly, non-verbally.
You can read them all here: “from the US of eh”.
Here’s to more years (depending on the outcome of Nov 4, of course).
About pete scully
Congrats on making it three years in this new and, I’m sure, strange culture. I hope you have found that A) although we are sometimes ugly, we are not all ugly Americans; B) that though we are sometimes crude and violent, we’re sometimes elegant and kind. I hope you have found that Americans are smitten by your accent, because most of us are. (Even though I haven’t personally heard yours.) And I think that’s a good thing.
i have now officially paid my wife back for spending three years in britain. Perhaps Canada should be next, it’s kind of inbetween the two.
Happy anniversary! I lived in the US for 8 years, then moved back to Europe for a little over a year. When i moved back to the US in late October ’04, it was a few days before the election. I really thought i Kerry would win. How freakin’ naive of me.
Here’s to hope, Pete.
Congrats . . . I think? Hmm. I’ve always had a wild dream of living on the other side of the pond. The grass is always greener on the other side.
bb: well, the grass actually is greener in england, it’s kinda yellowy brown here…
w: i lived in france during the whole le pen debacle in 2002, now that was an edgy political moment, especially in the south. Still, i wish we had a two-round system here, so we don’t have any ‘ralph nader taking gore’s votes’ moments again.