It’s crazy how much names get garbled through immigration paperwork! My roommate moved from Africa (idk what country), and I’ve always known her as Ndeye (pronounced like “day” in English). Well apparently, that’s not her “real” name! She told me that where she’s from, “Ndeye” is a common title given as a prefix to a girl’s name, and it means something along the lines of “mother.” In her country, everyone called her by her first name. But when she moved here, on her new birth certificate they wrote Ndeye as her first name and her actual first name as her middle name. She told me she just decided to go with it. Ndeye is plenty unique here!
It’s unfathomable to me that they’re so careless with people’s names (like in your story), and that for my roommate, the paperwork meant for immigrants has such a rigid US-style structure. I’ve never met anyone who was especially upset about their name being changed like that, but it seems super messed up to me! 🤷
Course, I guess it’s a relatively smaller problem compared to the rest of the issues with the immigration process. Sorry for the rant lol.
I absolutely agree with you. I do still laugh at the meme, though. It’s not because I think my teachers were wrong for teaching basic arithmetic; it’s just that “because you won’t have a calculator in your pocket” turned out to be an ironically bad reason. 100% still glad to have learned it, though.
I imagine here in the US people would think pea puree was too much like baby food. Of course, if you’ve ever tried baby food, some of it is pretty darn good, so. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Off topic, but yesterday I tried a tamale for the first time. Apparently they’re a common Christmas food in Mexico, so my boss brought some to our party. The first bite or two were strange (as a very picky US-American), but then it was really good! 10/10 would recommend and all that
Oh yeah, I bet fabric would be nice! Leather, too.
Same here for metal and silicone. I tried fitbit a few years ago, but the silicone band and the oddly-shaped face just didn’t feel right. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Oh, definitely! Price is half the game here. It could be the best thing in the world, but if it’s expensive, I’d be too preoccupied with keeping it safe.
My sister keeps asking why I keep using my backpack when it’s literally falling apart at the seams, when I have a perfectly good one in the closet. This is exactly the reason. :)
I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.
No fucking way! You’re telling me my whole interpreting major is a lie?? I’m gonna send strongly worded email to professor “Peña,” or whatever her real name is. 😡
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