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Re: My Non-LEGO family experiance (Nice Story)
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Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:09:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jeff Johnston writes:
> In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes:
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> (please note, followups changed to .off-topic.debate!)
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> > (1) US has been good to me (2). Not only is lego cheaper, but I earn about
> > twice as much from baby-sitting :-)
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> > (2) Only on lego issues, tho'. I don't like it here and if it weren't for
> > lego, I'd have much more resistive forces against staying. But every time I
> > say I want to go back to Israel, my parents just say "lego, license" (3) and
> > I
> > melt... ;-)
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> Wow, I didn't think the US was that bad...what makes Israel so much
> better?
Nothing is BAD about the US specifically - I'm just not getting along here.
Kids aren't very friendly in my school, I don't like the cold weather, I miss
my house, family and friends.
Basically, it's been eight months since I've moved here, and I don't have
anyreal thing that would make me want to stay, other than material stuff -
which, whatever you say or think, don't really cut it.
If there were _one_ important thing keeping me here - just one good friend,
for example - I could stay here without bickering about it even once (after
all, I don't really have a choice - I can't live alone in Israel yet. I have
to stay anyhow). But when I try to think about bright sides to staying here,
the only things I come up with are stuff like lego availability, license
possibility, maybe a chance for early graduation (finish high-school in Junior
year) and other silly stuff, that don't *really* matter.
I will be moving back to Israel in a year and a half, but till then all I can
do is try to make my stay as nice as possible. I try, but sometimes I just
feel a deep need to bicker... this was one of these times. :-)
-Shiri
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Ahh. I wondered if it was something like this. I do know what you mean - I spent a semester in London while I was in college, with none of my close friends there. I only got through by keeping very busy, and spending way too much money at the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: My Non-LEGO family experiance (Nice Story)
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| <snip> (...) Couldn't help but toss in a couple of pennies; this conversation often comes up with friends of mine who have travelled internationally. The USA tends to have a "colder", more "closed" culture than many other countries of the world. I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: My Non-LEGO family experiance (Nice Story)
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| (...) heh, I feel I need to jump in here too - Since I was in a very very similar situation. I'm from israel, originally, and lived in boston for a couple of years when I was 4 (got the bilingual thing you mentioned later) and again when I was a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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