Different Norms

When I first lived in Hong Kong everything was different from they way my family and I lived in Illinois. The food, the culture, the language, even the toilets were different. The food was all Chinese and everybody just spoke Cantonese, no one spoke English. At first, it was the hardest thing for me to understand what my grandparents were saying to me, my mom had to translate for me and my brother. However, after a few months we started catching on to what others around us were saying. It was a completely different lifestyle for us. The culture was different too, people in America everybody basically just has a set time when they eat; however, in Hong Kong people there just eat whenever they want normally they eat dinner probably around 8,but my family aways went out for midnight snack because everything in Hong Kong was still open. The stores and night markets, which were shops on the streets at night, were always open no one went to sleep. Everybody just stayed up because they can. Also, one other thing was different the school schedules. They go to school everyday besides Sunday and they go from like 9 until 4. Their schedules in Hong Kong were completely different, but I got used to it eventually. When, I first moved back to Chicago everything just seemed really weird to me, like the language and school. Everywhere there are different norms we just have to get used to it instead of judge it.