eat
1. When eating, you should tip, which is generally 10%- 15% of the consumption amount. Fast food restaurants don't have to tip.
2. American meat doesn't bleed. Stewed meat needs to be heated with cold water to bleed hard.
3. Restaurants have unlimited refills. Fast food restaurants pay for cups. Please help yourself to a drink.
4. The most commonly used food apps are Yelp and Pinterest. Yelp is similar to the domestic public comment network, and sometimes restaurants will have discounts on Yelp, so remember to take a look at Yelp before going to any restaurant. Pinterest is a photo streaming website that provides all kinds of content, food and recipes. It is a good place to look at pictures and learn to cook.
Dress
5. Girls must have evening dresses. Suggest buying at a discount. The same skirt has been put on the shelves for more than 100 yuan. It's ten dollars after the discount. As long as you don't change schools, you can't wear the same evening dress twice. Boys must have suits.
6. All kinds of suspender skirts. Most girls under thirty wear these.
8. Flip-flops are very popular in English. The English explanation is that it will make a flip-flop when you walk.
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9. Houses in America are roughly divided into dormitories, apartments and houses.
Dormitory is a school dormitory, which generally has a common kitchen, living room and bathroom.
The apartment is a community. The general community provides Studio, 1B 1B to 4B4B (the first b refers to the bedroom and the second b refers to the bathroom). Studio is similar to 1B 1B, but a little cheaper than 1B 1B, including the bathroom and kitchen, except that the kitchen has no door separating the living room from the bedroom. 1B 1B to 4B4B, that is, one room and one living room to four rooms and two living rooms.
10. The toilet in the bathroom is called the toilet. The bathroom at home is called bathroom. The bathroom outside is called the lounge.
1 1. Some sockets are different from those in China. Remember to bring the converter.
travel
12. Unless you live in new york, the car is the best way for you to travel, and everyone drives. As soon as it gets dark, there are almost no pedestrians on the road, so it is safer to drive.
13. driving test: the American driver's license is divided into two parts: written test and road test.
You can just brush the rules for the written test yourself, and you can take it many times for free in many places. You can get the driver's manual from the DMV motor vehicle management department near your residence.
The road test part is a little more troublesome, and there will be an examiner sitting in the car to evaluate your driving.
14. About buying a car. Poor students can buy second-hand cars, and it is recommended to buy them from regular car dealers. Although the car dealership is more expensive than private pricing, it is still guaranteed, and you can print the car history for you. Automobile paperwork, automobile brand application, etc. It is also handled directly by them. Just wait for the official car brand to mail it at home, which is more worry-free.
15. No one comes to serve you at the gas station, so refuel yourself and pay the bill yourself. The gas station has a set of glass cleaning items, which can be used to clean the glass when refueling.
16. In cities with developed public transportation, such as new york, students can apply for bus cards, and each subway station has a machine that automatically sells bus cards, which can be recharged directly and charged according to the distance; You can also buy a Zhou Ka or monthly card and take the bus and subway unlimited times in a week or a month. Keep the receipt after recharging.
17. If you lose your bus card, immediately ask the subway service window for a form and an envelope to report the loss, fill it out according to the receipt received when recharging, and then find a mailbox to deliver it without affixing stamps. In about a month, the transportation system will refund the amount you lost to your credit card.
18. American buses don't have to stop at every stop. If you want to get off, pull the rope above the seat and the front display of the cab will light up? Request to stop? The driver will stop at the next stop. Therefore, you need to know your stop-loss point in advance.
19. Say hello to the driver when you get on the bus. When you get off, say thank you. Have a nice day with the driver. The driver will respond. This is a polite habit of Americans.
20. In the United States, you must show your ID card, which can be a passport or a driver's license.