Tuesday, February 5, 2008

My first month is USA

So guys after a great amount of thought and a great deal of persuasion from Abhishek i have decided to put down on paper my month experience in USA.I will try to tell you guys what to expect in usa from an "An Indian's Perspective". Okay here it goes. The first thing i observed when i landed in US was that these people seem to love to stay fit, no wait love is not the word to describe it you might say "obsessed". I mean you will find people jogging at any time of the day, when i say any time i mean any time morning 6, afternoon 12,1 etc and heck they even run at 12 in the night. For a guy from India you will really find it funny to find people jogging when you are planning to go to sleep. when i landed in new jersey i found people going for a jog when the temperature was 8-10 Farenheit degrees that too in shorts.
Coming to the matter of food, For indians who used to go to department shops to get neccesary items you will find the stores here very confusing they will have atleast 10 varieties of the same item and the store people will arrange it in such a way that you will get totally confused what to buy. My friends i went with for shopping seemed to buy things based on their nuritional value, i guess even a 2% increase in Calories is really bad for health huh.
Now the students in the university can be classified into 2 broad groups- one those who are fat and the other those who are fit, There is no in between. When a say fat i mean fat, there is no way you will find anybody like that in India, trust me no way you will find anyone(by the by if you happen to find anyone like that he should be prosecuted for eating 10 people's food singlehandedly).
The students here seem to take up all branches of study, wait did i say all? i meant all except "Computer Science". Hell my class has 75% indians and 20% chinese and sprinking of americans. The people here unlike back in india seem to be willing to take up any field. They have fields and departments which no body in india would have heard about.
Oh and the Local bus service- People in bangalore who constantly say that BMTC gives a very bad service(myself included) should come here one time, then they will realise how good a service BMTC is offering. Here the bus service runs properly for 5 days then on saturday and sunday they reduce it or in their own words they have a "reduced bus service". And mind you they are very particular about reducing it. On saturdays the bus service stops by 6 and on sunday by 4(in the evening). You might be thinking what about the night life during weekends, well you have to walk to find your night life which maybe anywhere 10-12 for downtown. By 10-12 i meant miles not kilometers, that is approximately 20 Kms.Here the only proper mode of travel is through cars, But for a student just from india that's a very expensive dream. Hmmm i guess i have streched this narrative long enough, Its about time I took a break(Lets just say for your convinience), I will stop it for the moment. Oh and Abhishek this one i am dedicating to you.

2 comments:

Bharath R S said...

nice to see that u started your blog dude!!!!!!

Nice explanation!!! May be american tourism misght be affected by ur blog dude by the way u have explained the life there!!

btw hope to see u fat when u come back to India :P!!!!!!!!

Keep updating ur blog!!!

AKShay Amarnath said...

Aiyyyyyyyyooooooo Raaaaaamaaaaane :)