Lessons Learned while living in yuma

1. No one knows what an "ice box" is. When i say go put it in the icebox...everyone assumes its the freezer...its not it is the refrigerator :D and yes...i call the freezer a freezer.

2. When i first got here...if someone asked me if i wanted something to drink i would say yes get me a coke...well coke back home means Dr. Pepper...i know strange huh? So it took me a while to realize that here in AZ i have to give the right name for whatever type of soda i want

3. I didn't realize how much i say the phrase "Ya'll" but i guess i use it ALOT...because my boss's thought to give me an award for saying it so much.

4. That yes...Everything in Texas is bigger!

5. That everyone assumes i speak spanish :) but i disapoint them everytime

6. That in Az you are not allowed to have a crack in your windshield (we learned this the hard way)

7. When applying for a job...they prefer you to speak spanish

8. My boss had invited me to her house for a holiday party, when i asked what i needed to bring she said bring a 6 pack...my first thought was beer lol, no she did not mean a 6 pack of beer...she meant soda. Thank goodness i asked around before i crashed the nondrinking party with beer! :)

9. Az does not spring forward or fall back in time...it just stays the same time (we were late for work needless to say :)

10. When you go out to eat mexican food...it is actually real mexican food here...not like back home where it is texmex mexican food...can i say its a MAJOR difference. and another thing...ya'll actually have a thing called "salsa" and "hot sauce" and there is a differnce between them.

11. The first time we went and got grocerys at Frys they checked us out and loaded the basket...a few seconds pass and we are still standing there looking at the boy who bagged our groceries waiting on him to take our basket out...come to find out it must be just a small town type of courtesy.

Well there ya go...there are a few lessons i have learned while living here!