Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> After 18 hours of direct flight from Singapore to New York and one hour of
> transit flight to Cleveland, I am in US again. The company is in a nearby
> small city and the environment is actually quite nice.
> 
> I was in US before but I was mostly surrounded by Chinese students, Chinese
> supervisors, Chinese food and Chinese language. I know that is not the real US.
> 
> So this time I am having mostly American food (even the Chinese food here
> is too much Americanized), surrounded by American colleagues, mostly
> using English. Today we went to watch the baseball game (the Indians lost to
> the Tiger 1:4)  and we were taking very nice car (quite long with a small bar)
> which I only saw once in LA.
> 
> Then I was watching TVs and it is said that the government is pouring
> big money to try to create more jobs in the Cleveland area.
> 
> I think this is more real US...
> 
> I hope I can drive...
> 
> Regards,
> Xiaofan

If you can drive in Singapore, then you can easily drive in the US. 
Please note that it is not legal to drive on the sidewalks or in the 
on-coming lane.

Of course, maybe it was only the Singapore taxi drivers that did that 
when I was there.  All I know is that it was one hell of an exciting ride!

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