ahh lol No I didn’t bother to really think about your nickname. Clever.

I was over in Europe for 2 months traveling and since it was my first time, I was just enthralled by the architecture, scenery, random art everywhere, history etc everywhere I looked. So I didn’t mind the inconveniences at all. But towards the end, I have to admit I was looking forward to free automatic toilets, spacious rooms.. stuff like that. So I can see why you’d become ambivalent in living in another country. Even if it is Switzerland! But yea, when I was living in San Francisco, the scenery was gorgeous but it was really my friends that mattered. Doesn’t sound cheesy at all. I just always imagine some places would make me happier.

Take care and try and make the most out of your stay there! I’d try to go hiking as much as possible if I lived there.

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We should ship her off to Somalia, where maybe she could find out what ‘poor’ really is. She could entertain the Africans there by using her jagged little rat teeth to open the tin cans we airdrop in to feed the populace.
I’ll bet watching her open a tin can with her teeth would a good time, much more so then trying to watch her ‘act’ ever could be.

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hatsumomo – I’m moving to London this December for school and I’m already dreading it. It’ll be the first time I have to live on my own and pay my own bills and the 200 pounds a week I’m budgeted for housing is already stressing me out. It’s not enough and that’s with flatmates. I don’t even want to think about food. I imagine all my eating out will have to cease. But I guess it’s worth it to experience London for a few months, maybe years.

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I’ve actually been to both Luzern and mt pilatus… and a few other places with a hiking group… I guess I am just being whiny because I miss my home and all the conveniences I had amassed… I’m sure it’s a great country…

In all honesty, it never really matters where you live or what you have… what seems to be the most important is the people around… your friends… and family and the such… as cheesy as it sounds, I guess it’s the truth :/

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lol The Swiss are known for their precision and the Germans too. When I was Germany, I was with two friends at a fruit stand in Munich. We were trying to decide between getting some cherries or another type of fruit since we had been traveling and didn’t get much fruit in our diets. We decided on cherries and hesitated for a minute on how much to get. We had pointed out to the person selling that we wanted cherries. A minute later when we turn around to say how much we wanted, she point at her watch and said it was 5pm and she was closed. lol We ended up buying from another vendor but that’s NEVER happened in the US or Asia before. In fact, in Asia, if they saw you were potentially buying something they’d be willing to stay open for however long.

Taking out the trash and laundry does sound like a huge hassle compared to the states.

As for Kristen’s comment, there are poor and rich people everywhere you go. In fact, in more rural places, the rich tend to live in more secluded areas. They are less likely to live by the highway. She’s just more familiar with the main cities and surrounded by people with money. She’s just sheltered and it’s not surprising or insulting. It’s just how she grew up.

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Just saying.

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There are towns in the US which are EXTREMELY clean and well maintained (Beverly hills, malibu, newport… just to name the few places I’ve seen) and ones that are really dirt poor…

to say that Europe is advanced is another really comical thing to me because I was just complaining the other day how it took me a whole day to do laundry because the laundry machiens are SOOOO OLLLD… and the stove and dishwasher? fuggadaboutit… I can’t even boil water without wanting to rip my hair out… the stoves take 10 mins to heat up…

and then when you take your trash out you gotta put them in these standardized trash bags and buy stickers for them… you can’t just toss it out like you do in the US… and if you want to recycle… GOOD LUCK… it is soooo inconvenient… especially for cardboard which you have to wait to have picked up every 3 months…

The only thing I would say is great about Switzerland is that they have GREAT public transportation… otherwise, I am soooooooo over the stinky cheese, the stores that close at 6 pm sharp and aren’t really open on the weekends and I prefer to have a car anyway because public transportation is never really that convenint… besides, it costs about 3 bucks per stop, which is more than I pay for gas in the states…

WAAAA I wanna go home

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So, I’m not a fan and have never really read anything about her, so I’m learning a lot from commenters here. I had no idea she was born rich and was a child actress. Anyway, this particular excerpt from the interview makes her sound very insular and ignorant of the rest of the world. If she only saw “restaurants and gas stations” on her trip across the country, then she and her friends must have only driven on the expressways rather than getting off and actually seeing the places they were driving through. That’s kind of sad, but typical. I feel sorry for her because she wasted that cross-country drive. She could have seen and learned so much. Too bad she didn’t make an effort.

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