Okay. So literally speaking there isn't much to report, however I feel it's necessary to report how little there is to report, if you see what I mean. The season hasn't really started yet and even though I'm sticking to my guns with the shorts it hasn't actually warmed up yet.
The camp itself is beautiful. On one side is a pretty big lake, part of, I'm told, the biggest chain of lakes in the world. The sense of scale in America is mind-boggling. Everything seems to be in wide-screen, the landscape, the roads, the cars, the food and the people. Despite The enormous distances between "stuff" everyone still drives really slow. The pace of life here is leisurely, but that may just be in the countryside. The cities, of which I have seen two (New York and Minneapolis), are bizarre too. Why on earth do they have to be so tall? Minneapolis juts out of the ground like a cluster of shiny nails in an enormous sea of green from the air. Why build up when there is so much land to build out? Having said that, it is nice that there is so much greenery to see.
Despite what I was expecting of the Americans and America in general, it feels like I haven't actually gone that far. Every effort has been made to help us settle in. Oddly, I don't feel as if I'm in a different country, it kind of feels like I've stepped into a television programme - making the experience of watching American TV infinitely more weird.
Soundbytes: This week is a weird one, there's barely anybody here and we're just doing the heavy duty clearing up before all the kids arrive. On the weekend we have a bah mitzvah(?), so that should be interesting. Also, the food is stodgy, sweet and abundant. More on that later.
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The food was one of the biggest changes I noticed when going to America. And the portions. Has anyone told you to roll up your socks and put each in one of your shoes when you go to bed? Because you're supposed to do that incase scorpions or whatever climb in indoors or out.
I know what you mean about the scale and I found being in cars quite surreal. The air changes completely and everything is so far away.
There's supposed to be a shop in New York that sells British food. Not sure what it's called but it's a posh one because, you know, it's all imported. Even Marmite.
Good to hear this report, even if it is in the absense of real news. A physical description is all I was after personally.
What's the camp like? Have you been exploring? What are you doing with your time? Training? More details please!
Fantastic! finally found the link Duck sent me, and caught up with you! I'm really feeling like I'm getting a sense of the place from your descriptions - it's like discovering a new way to travel! By proxy, I suppose... :-)
BTW, loved the line about wearing shorts - I saw it in the form of one of your comics - jom in shorts with a look of determination!! :-)
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