Differences between US and TW

It's been 4 days we are in the US, and I've noticed some interesting differences between here and my hometown Taipei.

0.I'm a movie star !
Ting and I feel the same about this ! we feel like movie stars !
What we see here is exactly the same as what the movies taught us, so we feel like a movie star in an american movie:
Americans got big house with big garage, a garden and a back yard~ wonderful house of our dream ! it's really hard to get a house like this in Taiwan !


ps: this is Bruce and Diane's house in Minot, ND(my first host family! I really had a great time at their place, thank you Bruce and Diane !)

1.where is the garbage can ?
while taking my first breakfast in my host's home in Minot, I couldn't eat my banana because I couldn't find a place to dump the garbage. I've searched everywhere in the kitchen, under the sink, under the cupboards, opened every drawer... just couldn't find it. Then luckily, I was on MSN with Kesley (D5580 outbound team member to Taiwan), and eventually, she told me that the "compator" was the one !!! and she found that very funny !



2.because we don't have space to put it !
I've noticed that people here have a lot of equipments that we don't even if we need it more than they do !

a.the climate in Taiwan is very humide, but we don't have a dryer, because we don't have space to put it !
b.we don't have a dish washer in the kitchen, because we don't have space to put it !
c.we got only upright pianos in Taiwan, because we don't have space to put the grand ones. sometimes, it's not unsually to see those two types of piano at the same time in one house in USA!
d.American keep a lot of interesting decorations at home, but we don't, because we don't have space to put them.
e.sometimes, americans store things they buy in a "self-storage" they rent, why? because THEY don't have space to put them anymore !!

3.no chairs in the bedroom !
why ? because the bedroom is supposed to be a place for sleeping. Americans got dedicated rooms for all other purposes, they don't need to use computers in the bedroom !

4.everything's big !
meals are big !

cars are big !
even horses are big !


5.drive through everywhere !
Here, they got drive through for quite a few restaurants/cafes while in TW, we only have it for Mcdonald's and KFC.

Starbucks in Minot, North Dakota, USA
drive through for Starbucks ? that is the first one !!

Actually, I wondered how D5580 Team Taiwan felt while they were staying in Taipei, is it crowded for them at all ?