Beki Grinter

Frustration: A consequence of emigration










  1. Ah, this brings back good (bad?) memories of our year in Denmark where all of the stores kept ridiculous hours (at least to an American used to 24 hour access) and, in the Spring, they kept having holidays that arrived with no warning: suddenly no bus service, all stores closed, and if you didn’t stock up on Thursday, well, you were screwed.

    One thing that got to us all the time was the difference in perceptions involving distances. People would learn where we lived and would say “that far!?!” and we’d say “but it’s only ten minutes!” (by car while they were thinking walking/cycling). Or we’d say “We had a great weekend, we visited !” And they would say “You went halfway across the country?!?!” And we’d stammer “but it was only a two hour drive!”

    It was a learning experience and we had just come around to the Danish perspective on lots of things when our time was up and we had to return to the US to be corrupted again.

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