If you're going to San Francisco... ♫

If I were to move to the USA, I would certainly go to San Francisco...

First of  all, because the weather is quite great: real seasons, not like in Belgium where it is rainy everyday of the year. There, they have chilly winters and quite hot summers, and spring and autumn are like they should be: with blossoming trees for one and crispy red leaves for the other.

Then, the sea and the beach are within reach, and it should be very funny to go there and surf after class ends. Living by the shore must be something invigorating, breathing everyday iodine from the sea. Moreover, this panorama must provide kind of an energy, a motivation to inhabitants, compared with the grayness of Belgium that often makes us grumpy... Not seeing anything but grey buildings makes me sad at times.

Also, I have to say that I grew up with an image of the USA, and specifically of California, as a place where teenagers and young people are having fun all the time, going to big, awesome parties, with thin, tanned and blonde girls and surfer boys... Tough I know this kind of representation is a huge cliché I have to admit that it was, and still is, one of my "american dream". To live my teenage years there would have been fabulous, and I still hope that I will have the opportunity to go there before turning 30 to make up for lost time!

As far as jobs are concerned, I'm really looking forward to be working as an interpreter or a translator, but I know there are quite a lot of nature reserves there, and as nature and ecology are two of my biggest passions, I think that, if I were to move to the USA, I might be looking for a job in this section.

So, I know there are a lot of things I still don't know about the USA and its culture; stereotypes to dismantle and regions to learn about, but still, I think that I would absolutely love to go live there, even if it is not "party all the time"...

Harmony Lumeau