Thursday, August 2, 2012

6 adjustments one makes in the first 24 hours of moving to a foreign country

1. Stoplights are optional. As we rode in a taxi from the airport to our apartment at two in the morning, we watched our driver float between lanes, most of the time preferring to straddle the car on the dotted lines. Then as we pulled up to a stoplight and sat there for about a minute, another car came zooming past us through the stoplight. That’s when our driver decided the stoplight was no longer useful. So sure enough,...