Making new friends

Well after moving over here and not knowing many people whatsoever, apart from the people that were or are on the Ship that my husband was on, I can now say that I have met some new and wonderful people. And can I say that they are awesome. I won't mention any names, but I'm sure if they read this, they would realize who they are. All of my friends I left behind back in the UK, so it was really hard for me at the beginning, to try and make a life for myself over here and make friends, not knowing anybody. Even when I got to know my husbands shipmates, it still made it hard seeing the majority of them, as being in the Navy, they always have to go underway or they have to go on deployment, or they were working late, so I don't really technically get to see them that often. But the people that I have made friends with, I keep close to my heart. They are some of the best people and I will be there for them, as much as they will for me. And also meeting people that have the same sarcastic humor as I do. It makes it so much easier for me just to be me, and to not pretend that I am something or someone else, which I'd never do anyway, because the way I see it is that If someone can't accept you for the way you or for who u are, then that persons friendship isn't worth the hassle or the heartache. There is no point trying to live your life with people that don't matter. It's the ones that do that are important.

Before I came to the States, there was always a perception about what American people were actually like. Now all we had ever seen was on the news where they would show Americans as obese, overweight people walking down the streets eating fast food. That they were obnoxious and rude and only cared about themselves, and their country. This is all we have ever known or seen. This is all that was ever taught to us from the media. That Americans are made out to be this way. So If someone asked me what I thought of Americans, I'd honestly tell them, that that is all I have ever known, so I couldn't say any different. But coming here to the states, and actually MEETING and SEEING real people, real Americans..I know that it is not like that at all, and that the media always hype up everything to make it sound worse than it actually is. I mean yeah I'm sure that there are overweight people around, and yes I'm sure that there are people that do not look after their health and end up the way that the media proclaims Americans to be but it was the way that they were thrown about as if that was all Americans were. Almost like no one had researched or actually ever spoken to one, to really find out what its all about. And I don't think that it's fair that people should be seen in that way.