back in kaz after a four month break, all these things that used to be funny about this place but which ceased being funny when i got used to them during my prior 6.5 month stay, have become funny again. this morning's i was amused again by how everyone new who i meet seems to be working off the same script. they all ask exactly the same thing in roughly the same order. question #1 is always "where are you from?" and when i say i am from the USA, question #2 will always be "what state?" but no one who asks is ever prepared for the answer. they've never heard of any of the states, except maybe california and new york (and NY only because they think it is only a city).
when i answer "pennsylvania", i always get the same blank stare. so then i say my city is philadelphia, which doesn't help either because they don't eat cream cheese here. so then i say "between new york city and washington d.c." and from then on they will tell everyone that i am from new york.
