TimandAna

Overstaying your visa (The same as) - Someone asking to stay at your house for a week and never leaving
Entering the country without approval or documentation (The same as) - Someone you do not know either breaking into your house or entering your house without permission
DACA (The same as) - A stranger leaving a stranded child at your door "Your problem now"
Amnesty (The same as) - You adding a stranger to your house deed and tell them they can live there with you
USCIS placing priority on "illegals" (The same as) - Telling a stranger to eat your food first before your own children
I'm sure you get the drift if you just place it into more personal aspects...

Overstaying your visa (The same as) - Someone asking to stay at your house for a week and never leaving
Entering the country without approval or documentation (The same as) - Someone you do not know either breaking into your house or entering your house without permission
DACA (The same as) - A stranger leaving a stranded child at your door "Your problem now"
Amnesty (The same as) - You adding a stranger to your house deed and tell them they can live there with you
USCIS placing priority on "illegals" (The same as) - Telling a stranger to eat your food first before your own children
I'm sure you get the drift if you just place it into more personal aspects...

Overstaying your visa (The same as) - Someone asking to stay at your house for a week and never leaving
Entering the country without approval or documentation (The same as) - Someone you do not know either breaking into your house or entering your house without permission
DACA (The same as) - A stranger leaving a stranded child at your door "Your problem now"
Amnesty (The same as) - You adding a stranger to your house deed and tell them they can live there with you
USCIS placing priority on "illegals" (The same as) - Telling a stranger to eat your food first before your own children
I'm sure you get the drift if you just place it into more personal aspects...

What I see on the news and on TV... I really hope spouses of USC does get processed quickly.. Also not just the US but the WORLD help provide others with some temporary relief.

Overstaying your visa (The same as) - Someone asking to stay at your house for a week and never leaving
Entering the country without approval or documentation (The same as) - Someone you do not know either breaking into your house or entering your house without permission
DACA (The same as) - A stranger leaving a stranded child at your door "Your problem now"
Amnesty (The same as) - You adding a stranger to your house deed and tell them they can live there with you
USCIS placing priority on "illegals" (The same as) - Telling a stranger to eat your food first before your own children
I'm sure you get the drift if you just place it into more personal aspects...

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH NOA 2, BAY-BEE! We just got ours!

PD March 28, transferred to CSC on November 13. Holy speedy approval, Batman!

Onward to the NVC, and hopefully things start going as quickly for everyone else!

Just got a txt saying I am approved.
Location: CSC
Transferred: Last week

What I see on the news and on TV... I really hope spouses of USC does get processed quickly.. Also not just the US but the WORLD help provide others with some temporary relief.

haha i'm sure once he comes to US and once you start talking to your in laws more often then you will be able to understand and speak more fluently. My wife can speak and write english since she studied in english school, but its just a different feeling
and trust me once you get fluent it will more fun! and not to mention it can be used as a code language in certain situation haha!

Oh, you don't know how many times I go to sleep at night wishing I could wake up speaking fluent spanish. That's so nice you can speak her language.
My spanish is so terrible. I probably sound like a cavewoman . I really want to have a meaningful conversation with his family. all the girls can yap and I just sit there... like DUHHHH
I catch the conversation but don't know how to join in... Maybe one day !

I find this thread very interesting..thanks for starting this TimandAnna. Two things I will miss (I'm the beneficiary) when I leave home are:
1. I know I'm going to miss the tropical climate (no snow or cold weather all year long). My husband is from New Jersey
2. Family ofcourse. Leaving mom and daughter (one will be coming with me)
3.....Long stretches of white sand beaches and sunshine
What I'm looking forward to enjoy in the US are:
1. My husband of course
2. Shopping, shopping, shopping and more shopping
3. Building new relationships with my new family.
4. Eating lots and lots of fruits and vegetables because it will be much much cheaper
5. Taking long road trips on wide and traffic-free roads
6....White Christmases
What I know my husband misses when he comes to my country are:
1. Hot water showers
2. Cool temperature throughout the day
3. American food (Its taking him a while to acquire the taste of Jamaican cuisine)
4. His son (calls him every day to make sure he's ok)
haha!

Did your husband have formal classes in english in the colegio? Mine never did. I'm working on his tenses and sometimes he says "I" when he means "he or they". Or he will say I'm driver instead of I'm driving. I think its cute and I totally understand him but I understand why he feels so weird about it.
And English IS hard to write.. He tries tho .. He will spell "nice" like "Naice". But I know why, because that is how it is pronouced in Spanish. its cute !!

we started out as texting in english but not anymore, i just feel more connected when i speak to her in native language.

My esposo's English has gotten so good he's now the go-to translator at his work when Americans visit Yours will loose the accent, or at least you'll get used to it. My family sometimes picks at the way he says something I never even noticed he said it in a funny way! For now we talk about 50/50 in Spanish/English. We're mainly in English now because of some potential job ops, but we go back and forth pretty well. But he ALWAYS emails/texts in Spanish. English is hard to write!!

I LOVE ORLANDO ! !
Paying a visit to Mickey is on our bucket list of things we need to do together.

THAT'S FUNNY !!! Thank God for GPS's and smart phones.
My husband lived with me when he was here so as long as his memory is in tact, he should be good. Getting around should be fine.
He still is funny about talking to other people in English. I am the only one who ever spoke English to him and in fact, he didn't speak a word of English when I met him. He always had that confused look on his face. I bought him some books and I sat with him and just spoke slowly. We used to sit for hours and I would google translate lyrics to songs that he liked but never knew what they were saying. We didn't even talk on the phone in the beginning. Just text. Such good memories !!! even now, I text in English and he responds in Spanish. I wouldn't trade that for the world. I could listen to his accent forever. I hope he never loses it !

HAHA that's funny that you will paint your wall, I think you should just introduce him to the GPS or get him a smart phone so he can ask "siri" please take me home and find the stuff around me

you all are making me laugh so hard, trying to work but this stopped me.
my husband is Filipino living in Japan for 30yrs now. rice has been part of his meal every day of his life. THAT might be a challenge here, but we'll make it work. there are alot of Filipino and Japanese places here; just have to find all of the stuff he likes most.
i was there for two months this past Jan/Feb...there can't possibly be food in the US as good as it is there....everything is fresh, all day every day. i miss that alot. I have to try to make this transition as easy for him as possible. i think he's generally excited to be where it's warm and where people / neighbors talk to each other. he knows they all know he's not Japanese (altho obviously fluent), so he's kind of the odd man out in general.
just my short story to fill the gap....we knew each other 40+yrs ago in high school...we were in Taipei together, I was in HS, he was in a Filipino band (sigh....my inner drummer!). when we all left there in early 72, we all lost contact. thank God for the internet and FB, by way of 3-4 emails they eventually pointed me back to him! That was April 2011, we were married in Osaka in Feb this year.....and then I left him behind.....and here we are. because he's Filipino he can't even come here on the VWP(even if he lived on the moon) to visit because they are not in the program. Bummer.
he told me his biggest fear is not knowing where he is and not knowing how to get around. i've decided i'm going to paint one full wall in my house white and then get a wall size map made of Central Florida and Orlando so he can study them when he figures out where he is and where he's going, I'll paint the wall!

Grate thread!
My husband actually misses the driving in Jordan, he says driving here isn't a challenge haha. I HATE driving in Jordan, it is insanity.
There are so many things he misses about home,
-the driving
-being able to go to dinner without spending a small fortune, the cost of,living is so much lower there in just about all aspects of life.
-He misses all the specialty markets for food and spices and meats and veggies and breads.Everything there is fresh. I miss that about Jordan too.
- he misses the hustle and bustle of the city, he lived in Amman. Even though we live in the biggest town in NH, it is not nearly as busy as the big city, after all it's New Hampshire.
- he misses having family around all the time. There was always mom, dad, brothers, sisters and extended family at home constantly. Here we live far from my family.
- he misses his moms cooking and eating all the parts of an animal, that in in my opinion, are not meant to be eaten. I do cook a lot of middle eastern food for him, but it just isn't the same. We don't have the fresh spices, and farm fresh yogurt and so many other things that are available there.
- here he HATES the winter. Then again so do I, and I grew up here.
Things he doesn't miss
- TV and movies. He is from a Muslim country so many shows and movies are blocked or edited because of the laws about dencency(not sure of that's good,or bad..lol). He gets to watch shows on tv when they are new, not years later as reruns with half of the good parts cut out.
- being able to watch soccer on TV in the comfort of his own home.
- the job market there is terrible, he is happy to have a job in his field with decent pay.
- he loves that here in the US we can drive a few minutes and be at the ocean, or skiing 5 minutes away, and less than an hour to Boston. He loves the different cultural sections of Boston, the north end(Italian section, he says he feels like he is in a scene from the Godfather when we go), Chinatown, Southie(Irish)He loves how different each state is and that you don't have to hop on a plane to vacation.
- he loves the different cultures and foods right at his fingertips, and that it's authentic. In Jordan there is one kind of food, middle eastern, even Japanese or Italian food is middle eastern...haha
- he likes the option to go to the gym 24 hours a day. Not quite sure he joined a 24 hour gym though, he only goes at night after work...haha
- he is amazed at how good the medical system and care In this country is, albeit expensive. It is night and day. Going to the hospital there is a scary experience. Been there, done that, it was the worst experience of my life.
I could go on forever about what he misses about home, and what he likes and doesn't like about the US. I just know that we are both incredibly lucky, to first of all have each other, and to also have the cultural differences that we both embrace into our daily lives. There are so many things I have learned from him, his family and friends and culture, things I never would have know unless we met. The intense conversations we have about the religious and cultural differences take place between us every da make us laugh, and cry( good crying)and make us think. What he has brought into my life, and into the lives of my children and family are endless. Neither one of us would trade our journey for anything. We have fun, we live life to the fullest, but most importantly, we love each other. More each day...

I wanna eat the turkey some time in the 11 days I'm there... LOL you're funny

HAHHA You're not lying about the Pali.. I hate going there. When I speak english in that store I have a million eyes on me as I walk around.. I used to get weirded out by all the stares.. Now I just talk and talk and talk and look back at them !!

I would love to buy an uncooked one but there is NO OVEN at my husband's house. How would you like to cook it ???

Im texting with my husband now.. He says he knows where the Automercado is but its very expensive.. LOL I keep asking him about pre-cooked Turkeys and if he can call and reserve one.. He just says we should be able to just go buy one.... IDK, maybe its me but I think you need to call ahead... thats alot of work to cook those turkeys and then not sell them... I think we need to put in an order..
It would be great if you can let me know where to get one so I can get him to call....he just doesn't feel the need to rush.. he's on TICO time

Yeah, Pali is the worst grocery store there is. They sell rice, beans and cans of tuna.
I'm going to be looking for turkeys this year so I'll let you know if I spot one in WalMart!

we usually hit the Walmart in Desamparados on the way to his house. As long as they have additional things for this time of year then I think I will be fine. Thanks. I askedmy husband but he only ever goes to Walmart when I am there. His mom has never been... She likes Pali but hten again, she isn't looking for american foods !
I hope Walmart has pre-cooked Turkeys !