So American

Cultural differences crop up in the craziest ways. Such as last weekend when I was in the hospital. I've gotten used to my stomping grounds, and most locals to me. Consequently my lack of Afrikaans is becoming less of an issue. But the hospital, I may as well have been in Italy. People kept forgetting to speak English. And during one tense moment a man, trying to talk over daughter's screaming, kept talking louder and louder every time he was reminded to speak English. He wasn't speaking Engl...