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Hi guys and welcome back to my channel!
Okay, so last year when I was in the
US I did a video about the things I miss the most about Italy, and I thought
that now, since I've been back home since June,
it's probably time to do a similar video.
This time, however, I'm gonna talk about the things I miss the most about
the Us and living in America.
If you don't know me yet then I was an exchange
student in Virginia last year, I did the year abroad,
and you can check out my channel
for other contents and other videos about that.
So the first thing I miss is
separate bills when you go out to eat at restaurants or fast foods or whatever else
in America if you for example go to eat out with friends, with a group of
friends, at the beginning of the meal the waiter will ask you if you want a single
bill or if you want a separate bill.
In that case if you ask for a separate bill
at the end of the meal the waiter will come back with cheques and bills for
each single person and you will only pay for what you've got and what you ate.
Therefore I think that is really fair because you only pay for what you ate
and what you got, instead in Italy that is really unusual. There are only a
few restaurants that allow you to do so and if you want to, and they can, then
in that case you do that at the end of the meal when you go there to pay and that
is why it doesn't happen, because it will be a mess once you finish eating
to separate and try to remember what you ordered and what other people ate,
therefore, what Italians usually do is split the bill in even parts
for example you paid
$100 or 100 euros and there are 10 people then it will be 10
dollars or 10 euros each. We call this method "alla romana"
and I'm used to it because I've always done it but I prefer the American
possibility, let's say.
The second thing I miss is free water. When you go to a
restaurant or fast-food, water is always free because they give you tap water and
therefore you don't have to pay for it.
Instead here in Italy even if it doesn't
cost much you have to pay for water because they bring you water bottles
and then another thing I miss, it's linked to this topic it's free refills
because in Italy if you for example finish your bottle of water and you want another one
you will have to pay for it and they'll add it to your bill at the end.
The same thing for drinks: you have to pay for each bottle, each glass that you get
Instead in the US you usually - for example if you get a drink, if you get
coca-cola, if you get another soda, you have free refills and therefore you
can drink as much as you want, you only pay for it once at the beginning.
Usually, you don't even have to go ask for it, like waiters are always wandering about and
they- as soon as they see your glass is half-full or half-empty, whatever, they will
fill it up even if you don't want it sometimes.
Okay, then another thing I miss
is wearing whatever you want. This probably doesn't apply always, to all
places or everyone, however, when I was in the Us, especially in school, I
noticed that people wore whatever they wanted and no one said of thing.
Teenagers could develop their own style, could find their own style and they
could even like - they could even come to school with pajamas and no one would say a thing
or sometimes people would like compliment me about my outfit more than
people here in Italy have ever done. In the school like it's really a mix of
styles, of clothes - so from people wearing yoga pants and athletic clothes
and people wearing dresses or heels too. Instead here in Italy I think
especially teenagers are more judgmental and we usually - we tend to
follow the new trends so perhaps everyone has the same kind of shoes, the
same kind of clothes, for example I stopped wearing some of the clothes that
I wore in America because I know that like here in Italy I probably wouldn't
feel at comfort with myself because I know that I will probably be judged
or that other people wouldn't like it or that I wouldn't fit in with the rest of
the teenagers in the school.
Okay then.. fifth thing I miss the most about the US
is small talks. So I know that small talks doesn't mean friendship,
however, I think it is really cool like in America you could start talking with
complete strangers about anything, like not only the weather but like you could
even start talking about your life with a complete stranger. And, you know ,
people just come to you and start talking, if they have to fill up their
time, if they don't know what to do, then they talk to you, it's really cool
because you don't feel alone. For example if you are in the waiting
room, if you're at the airport or, I don't know, like in school, whatever.
Instead of just staying silent and not saying anything like you just start
talking with strangers and you don't know what will come out of it. Instead here in Italy
I think people never do this, or at least rarely do it, like even in my school I
can see like - I barely talk with people from other classes or people perhaps
I've seen for five years but I've never talked to it because even if we go to
the same school, we've never gone across that barrier, and if you are
waiting in a waiting room then people will usually stay to themselves and not
speak to you, the same if you are in a line, so it's something Americans always
do but in Italy it doesn't really happen.
Then, of course, a thing I miss and you
were probably expecting me to say that, it's school.
I really miss American school. Italian school, really, is so boring
and like I know I'm probably learning way more here than last year in the u.s.
but, still, it's a struggle. We're only at the end of January and I
can't do it anymore, because lessons here are boring, like you only go to school to
learn and study. Teachers lecture you, then you have to study a lot at home
Instead in the u.s., well, school was way more fun and interesting because
first of all, you could choose some of the subjects you wanted to do, so
things that you actually liked, and then school in the US is more practical, so you
actually get to try things by yourself, you get to communicate and
cooperate in class. Lessons are more interactive there are not just lectures
and you do things in class, you participate and also like apart from
the lessons and the classe, the school, the building, the structure, is way
better. Like, in my school in Italy we're all crammed in a room barely
with windows and we're 31, and then during the break we don't even have the
space to walk in the hallways, basically. Whereas, my school in America was huge
and had gyms, and fields, and everything you could ever imagine. There was a lot of space,
the hallways were huge and large, and of course they also did a lot of
activities. So they made school fun and interesting to go, so a place where you
wanted to go not only to learn but also to meet with people, to have fun.
Okay, then let's go on to another thing I miss is nature and especially seeing
squirrels and deers. Okay so of course - I live in a town near the hills, like from
where I'm sitting now I can see all the hills in front of me and it's really
cool, however I loved Virginia mountains, I had
them behind my house too and I loved them in all seasons.
There, like I could see
squirrels running in the garden or alongside the street and the paths,
in Italy I have never seen a squirrel, I've only seen them in
England, not here and I love them. And also deers, like, of course we have
deers too, but they don't come to the road. Instead like in the u.s. you were just
driving and you would see a deer next to you or even when I was running during cross country.
Sometimes we ran and we had deers like a hundred metres in front of us
us and I loved that for some reason, so I miss that.
As the last thing, is ordered lines
So when people wait in America they tended to be a really - way more
ordered and polite, so they would stand in an ordered line and wait for their turn,
instead here in Italy it's usually a brawl. For whatever it may may be, like a
line at the restaurant or a line to get food, especially, or even to get on the
bus. Here in Italy it's always a mess, people just can't understand that it
would be way easier to wait in line.
And then of course - I would say of course
that I miss my American friends and my American family, or host family, but I
can't really add it as another thing because in my video about "what I miss
about Italy" I didn't say it, I didn't talk about missing my family and friends
because, you know, you usually take it for granted but, anyway, I really miss you
and I hope I'll see you soon.
This was everything for today's video!
Of course, as always, I hope you enjoyed it and if you did leave a thumb up,
subscribe to my channel if you haven't done it yet, and I'll see you next time!
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