German exchange student sees the little differences

Andreas Meyer-Giesow says it’s the little things that are different.

The well-mannered 17-year-old exchange student says that fundamentally, life in the United States isn’t dissimilar from life in his native Germany. There are, however, some minor differences.

The cars we drive and the homes we live in are different, skyscrapers are much more abundant in New York than Munich, nobody plays football or baseball in Germany, and cloves loosely translates to carnations in Germany, which has made for at least one confusing [...]

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