Diary-3- What I thought in the US. This is my third entry. Thanks for visiting and reading my diary. In this entry, I would like to tell you about what I thought in the US. Let’s see gaps between the US and Japan. It has already been one year and half since I came to the US. During the course of this studying abroad, I had a bunch of experiences, which I would not have experiences in Japan if I didn’t come to the US, and of course, I had not only good experiences but also bad ones. (1) Food American food is amazing for me: Herein I’m saying that typical American food means hamburger, French fry, Hot dog, Pizza and so on, also known as junk food or fast food in Japan. It’s so tasty but little bit expensive and too much for me. Originally liking fast food, I ate it almost everyday. One day, I looked myself in a mirror and found that I got fat and became like other person! Indeed, I gained weight of more than 10 kg as compared with the weight just before I came to the US. I thought I need to re-consider my eating habits and take health consciousness. (2) Apartment and the rent I’m currently living in the small city where almost people go to the X university which is a very big university or hired at the university like me. This means that average income in this city is probably much higher than other cities in the US. Therefore, apartment rent is gradually going up every year and now my apartment rent achieves more than $1,100/month! This is also amazing for me because the rent of the apartment in which I previously lived was only $400 /month and the previous apartment was much better than current apartment: I’m not sure why but apartments in the US are very old (I guess because probably there are no earthquakes in the US or less than Japan.). This is not a complain to the US but I’m feeling different culture, system and environment. I would like to discuss other points in next entry. If you can correct my English, that would be great! If not, no worries. Thanks in advance!