It seems that over here nobody really eats peanut butter. Two of my roommates are totally grossed out by it and asked if people really eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The question was complicated by the fact that here jelly is jell-o. No people in America do not eat peanut butter and jell-o sandwiches.
Another thing that they asked me the first day we met was "Is it really like Mean Girls at your high school?" I laughed and said of course not, that is just a spoof and exaggeration of how it is sometimes. But really, that is their impression of teenage America. This is a really terrible thing because we realize that it is a satire but they do not. Sinead (pronounced shinate) said that at her all girls school after Mean Girls came out, it actually got like that because they wanted to be like the cool Americans. Oh, the image we export without knowing it!
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