America: First Impressions

My plane landed at 3.40pm(GMT -4) on American soil. And with this touchdown, was a sense of exhilaration, anxiety and sadness. Exhiliration at the opportunities that lie ahead, anxious about the uncertainties before me, and sad because of the connections I had left back in Kenya.

Some things stand out in the country:

The roads, infrastructure

It's hot: temperatures reaching 36 degrees celsius attributed to the Summer season.
The place is organized: even from the airport, things just seem to work. Signs are well done, instructions clear, and directions very visible. This caused a bit of jitters in me, it seems a bit, mechanical. The highways are wide, clean, well marked and well, beautiful.
People talk funny (the "r's" we ignore in words, are very pronounced). I am also made to repeat some things I say, "Sorry, what did you say?"
8pm looks like early morning, the sun is still out, and every place is bright.

And even though the place is strange, people talk funny, and everything just seems intimidating, I am thankful to some things that work.

Uber: from the Airport, to the University of Maryland, Uber is a life-saver.
Fast food joints: There are a number of them every few hundreds of metres. And even though they do not serve "healthy" food, they are very convenient for a starving Kenyan in a strange land.
Craiglist: as I search for a place to stay, this service has proved very useful; it has a lot of variety

Burger King Takeout

These are the first few hours in this country, dubbed "the land of the American dream". Let's see how things pan out over the next few days

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