..yes dears , ladies and gentleman ( only one ) I am in a new place and list of hurried things led us to minneapolis with hd and 4 huge suitcases , The journey to US , how will I ever forget it , except for the Amsterdam airport the whole thing was disastrous ...started at home in chennai to get stuck at vadapalani traffic jam and the cab driver coming almost 40 mts late ..i really saw tears in Hd's eyes and his face expression was really pitiable ..i was my usual chatty self and some how it did not bother me though i should say the whole thing of packing and moving got on my nerves till the end , well any way we boarded the next flight and it was just part -1 breaking nerves thing ..the next part was when we boarded the plane in Mumbai with almost running towards the immigration desk .. so many checking and rechecking that at the end , i felt like a criminal trying to get into some other country without permissions .. Finally got to Amsterdam after an 8 hour journey and slept like a solid rock in the flight . ..
The first time you set your foot out of India leaves kind of aweeed , it started when the plane started to land in Amsterdam ..the neatly packed rows of houses , the farms with exact dimensions and i could almost count the sheep in some ones farm ( joking ) , the neatness and exact boundaries of the whole place form top gives you an idea about what to expect when you get down..the airport at amsterdam was beautiful Me and Hd had spent some thing like 50$ there buying the knick -knacks and all ..i was like this spoilt girl running amuck on so nicee things , that i bullied hd to spend some ..;) ..so from there we boarded the flight to Minneapolis airport to find myself suddenly among super silent white people and a nervous hd as he had 'accidentally' teared the print-out of the ticket and we got sound advice from the flight staff to 'preserve' the ticket till the end of the journey ..getting a piece of cheesy advice from some ones mouth and i was mmaad at Hd for doing that but had to swallow it hard before i burst up..'gosh the nervous ness of Hd , it really got on my nerves ..may be because it was so important to him and not me ..may be ..but the whole thing was just picnic for me ..just pure picnic of some thing nice to see and a not a serious thought at all ... and there ended the flight story with another immigration check and a big good bye to high nosed 'Delta' flight staff , take my word they are the most inadept - unservicabe( if there is a word like that ) set of old waitress who cannot handle any thing than a glass of water and one needs to think twice before asking anything to them ....
So we landed in Minneapolis with only three of our luggage coming and the last one coming the next day to the hotel ...
America and Super 8 :- We took a room in a motel called Super 8 and checked in around 5 in the evening .. the first impressions of the place is to be a object of 'stare' when an American white woman stared at my thick gold chain and bindi with a amused and raised eye-brow for a few mts and asking me politely if I was in the line ..and the next thing is taking some big car ( no clue about cars and models ) sorry ! to find the roads so silent that i felt like shouting myself to create some noise and the super smooth drive to a motel called Super -8. Dumped our suit cases and asked a friend to all home and tell that we reached safely there ...We literally passed out after one hour and woke up some where at 3 in the morning , wildly hungry and awake ..to wait for the break fast room to open at 6 .
America and Food : Food in America for a first timer like me is 'IMPOSSIBLE' a single word and what ever i ate in the first few days was just out of hunger than any thing else . The hunger almost tempted me to eat eggs , though i did not eat since they seemed the only palatable item in the hotel. Everything i touched was covered with unknown variety of cheeses.. and in the hunger i mostly ate toasted bread for survival .If you are a vegetarian then the things you eat will be very limited .
America and Climate : The climate in Minneapolis right now in fall and is very pleasing,hot and coming from a hot climate like Chennai i find it very pleasant and the place is full of greenery like any place where people are sparse . In their language the climate is sunny reaching upto mid 70F with occasional winds and a pleasant evening , their way of expression of the climate . Its summer for them here and people are quite happy right now .
America and Silence : America is super silent and pleasant in the initial days . What you feel later on is a complete different story , we wil deal with it later . But the whole system is super silent and if you don't have some thing like TV and car then you like marooned in an lonely island with almost no shore at sight .
America and cars : The only thing i guess an average American can talk about is i guess cars . Since that is the the basis of connection with anything since no place is in walk able distance nor there is any other mode of comfortabe transport here . Cars which drive at such speeds that the air gives a'wrooooom' sound and i can hear it from my window some quarter mile away .
America and 'house -wife' : For the first few months it is living hell for any house wife in US simply because you cant go anywhere without a hubby since every thing is linked to SSN numbers and credit cards etc., which you don't see any sign of seeing in the future anywhere . It takes long time for some things to happen here .
America and furniture : - All indians who come here initially take the second hand furniture for a less price from people who are either going away from here or are selling them . Most of it is very used and looks kind of old ..hmmm ..boooo..i miss our furniture brought from 'khoon-paseena' of my salaries .
America and walking : Its beautiful to walk here and yesterday we had a great experience walking with huge bags and being the object of amusement for every one since 'we' just went to get some milk and curd and brought some very cheap clearance things from there .4 beautiful microwavable sets of plates and saucers for 6 $ the cheapest price in America.
..here 'we' stands for three ladies (indian) wearing thick gold chains and 'mattelu' for feet , walking and laughing as if we were going to shopping to monda to get vegetables.
America and Amma : Mom comes on skype these days sees me in the video watches me for 10 mts and is quite happy with it . She says she is seeing me often from US than in Chennai , true quite true and she gets most worried if my hair is oily or out of place and always ends with ' Be happy bhavani be happy'!!
..and so end the nice things that i wanted to write about my 'Ameeerica ' trip.Ugh! So difficult to write nice things and think 'politely'.
America and 'house -wife' : For the first few months it is living hell for any house wife in US simply because you cant go anywhere without a hubby since every thing is linked to SSN numbers and credit cards etc., which you don't see any sign of seeing in the future anywhere . It takes long time for some things to happen here .
America and furniture : - All indians who come here initially take the second hand furniture for a less price from people who are either going away from here or are selling them . Most of it is very used and looks kind of old ..hmmm ..boooo..i miss our furniture brought from 'khoon-paseena' of my salaries .
America and walking : Its beautiful to walk here and yesterday we had a great experience walking with huge bags and being the object of amusement for every one since 'we' just went to get some milk and curd and brought some very cheap clearance things from there .4 beautiful microwavable sets of plates and saucers for 6 $ the cheapest price in America.
..here 'we' stands for three ladies (indian) wearing thick gold chains and 'mattelu' for feet , walking and laughing as if we were going to shopping to monda to get vegetables.
America and Amma : Mom comes on skype these days sees me in the video watches me for 10 mts and is quite happy with it . She says she is seeing me often from US than in Chennai , true quite true and she gets most worried if my hair is oily or out of place and always ends with ' Be happy bhavani be happy'!!
..and so end the nice things that i wanted to write about my 'Ameeerica ' trip.Ugh! So difficult to write nice things and think 'politely'.
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