Things that happen when you’re an English person living abroad…

  

•  You have to force yourself not just to go down th easy route and just speak English. 

• Even though you’ll realise that all Europeans and people from the rest of the world speak incredible English.

• When somebody finds out that you’re English they will ask you if you’re from London.  

• Oh and people ask if English people really drink tea with milk in it

• You try and have a serious conversation with the Internet company or phone company in the foreign language, freak out and go back to English. 

• You will nearly order beef liver in a restaurant because you couldn’t translate until someone very kindly stops you. 

• You find yourself amazed at foreign supermarkets.

• But after a while you just miss Dairy milk and easy access to cheddar cheese. 

• You start to think you might be getting the hang of the lingo and then somebody asks you for directions in the street and you absolutely can’t understand them. 

• If you live in Germany you’ll probably gain half a stone in weight just by looking at the bakeries. 

• You’ll start to have weird half English half foreign language conversations with people. 

• You’ll realise that even after 5 years of learning a foreign language it did not prepare you for actual real life foreign people.  

• You’ll wonder why every country doesn’t just have an NHS.

• You can still be a lazy stay in bed student only abroad and it seems so much cooler.

• You will probably meet people and only speak English.

• You start cycling places and think to a stranger you must look really cool and cultured. 

• You’ll get pangs of homesickness, thank goodness for Skype. 

• You mainly try and blag your way through job interviews and such because you’re not entirely sure what you’re agreeing to. 

• Your main goal is being able to watch How I met your mother in the foreign language.

• You realise no cheese will ever be as almighty as cheddar, 

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