The differences are in the details...

Things are different here. I knew that in moving to the US that things would be slightly different than Canada but I wasn't exactly sure what to expect. None of these are huge culture-shock type items, just things that I've noticed:

• Apparently I have a "Canadian accent"
• Trying to figure out the equivalent km/h for the posted miles/h because our car doesn't have the miles/h well marked and when you're wearing sunglasses you can't see them at all
• Along the same lines, I never know what temperature it is here but for the most part I go with hot, hot and humid, or cool evening classifications
• Given the warmer climate there's a whole new array of bug life, especially the spiders that spin webs daily across our kitchen window and the weird little bugs that come out at night and invade our kitchen - but no mosquitoes, at least not this year
• The flour here is different - apparently because their winters aren't as cold it doesn't have as high a gluten content. Yesterday we attempted to bake brownies and cookies but both flopped - my roommate even let me use the brownie as a frisbee and chuck it across the room (well, she didn't give me permission, I just did it because the brownie chunk looked exactly like a frisbee)
• Junk food here is cheap - the chicken fingers and french fries that used to be a luxury are now a cheap meal
• The ketchup here is watery and bland...who would have thought?
• There are no Coffee Crisp or Aero bars to be found
• I realized that I had actually become used to the wind in Winnipeg; it's so calm here
• Cruizing along the interstate is not like navigating the highways in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. And I'm oh so glad for foreign plates - people are a little more forgiving.

So these are a few of the things that I've noted about being a stranger in a foreign land.