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1: Before departing from the United States, I printed the e-visa evus, travel plan, air ticket itinerary, took China Eastern Airlines direct flight to Los Angeles for 12 hours, if you want to choose a cheap ticket, you can choose Cathay Pacific, Asiana Airlines, these two are quite affordable, and I prepared several questions at the beginning of the plane, and it is expected that the customs may ask me questions, such as whether you are coming alone?how long are you going to stay?how much money are you preparing, are there relatives and friends here? Wait, but in fact: Los Angeles doesn't need anything to enter, there are quite a lot of people queuing up to pass through the border on the day I enter, but I didn't queue for long, the point is that I didn't ask a single question, I gave the passport to enter fingerprints and let it go, I see that the people in front of me are like this, and there is no entry information that you need to fill in.
2: However, when some of my friends entered the United States, they were asked some questions, and I have compiled them here to share them with you, maybe you will use them in the future:
1. What do you do in the U.S.?(Talking about traveling and shopping);2.Where to go shopping?(Take out the prepared route and a few shopping tips);3.Costco?(I said I have a membership card from Shanghai);4.Do you want to drive?(I took out my driver's license but didn't look at it);5.What kind of work do I do?(After answering, I expressed my interest in my work);6.Where to stay?(Take out the hotel itinerary).
3: After leaving the airport, if you want to take a taxi to the city you want to go, then you need to follow the directions of Ground Transportation at the airport and walk to Terminal 5 to do the shuttle to the location where you can take a taxi.
When you get to the point in the picture below, you can use your own app taxi software to start taking a taxi, and then wait there.
4: The first time I came to the city of Washington, I bought a ticket in the subway, the subway ticket was 6 dollars, the cost was 2 dollars, and in fact, I could pay 8 dollars, but a 10 dollars number popped up on the machine, I didn't want to pay it at all and left, because I didn't want to delay my time, when I turned around to leave, a black and thin man stammered and asked me how to buy a subway ticket, if I could help him buy a ticket, I also came for the first time, in line with the principle that more is better than less things, I don't want to care, but I saw with my spare eyes that he asked for help in front of 2 white people, all of them were ruthlessly refused, and at this moment in front of the ticket machine I and him10 meters away is the subway staff, but which eldest sister sits there motionless, and she can't be expected to come out to help.
Seeing that the black brother in front of him was also quite helpless, and I looked at him carefully and did not look like a bad person, I thought: let's help him, everyone has encountered difficulties, I asked him to go to which station, he pointed to one of the station names to me, after determining the destination, I helped him buy a ticket cost 2 knives and 6 knives of tickets, and then I followed the process of buying a ticket for myself, but it showed 10 knives, the black brother was excited and stammered to me and said that this fare is not right, it means expensive, his guide book said 6 dollars, I explained to him that there are 2 dollars of the cost of work。
But in any case, the operation is not out of the 8 knives, to be honest, I was very complicated at the time, I wanted to pay more than 2 knives, it is not a big deal, the key is to buy a ticket, but I still canceled the previous operation, re-study how to buy a ticket, after a lot of effort, successfully bought a ticket of 8 knives, he showed a happy smile, on the road and he briefly communicated, learned that he is Sudanese, his family is in Sudan, he will send money home every month after earning money, part of it to his wife and part of it to the elderly, he only left a small part of the pocket money, when I helped him buy a good ticket to take him into the station I thought in my heart: really good, the red scarf on the chest is more colorful.
When I was about to arrive at the station, he cautiously reminded me that you will arrive at the next station, and said to me: Thank you for your help (thank you for your help), he couldn't help me much, during that short journey, pay careful attention to the changes in the platform, remind me not to sit on the station is his greatest help, I suddenly glad that I canceled the 10 dollars subway ticket and tried to buy him 8 dollars many times, otherwise I will regret this for the rest of my life.
5: I was a little hungry at night, so I ran downstairs to a coffee shop to buy a sandwich to fill my stomach, and was told at the cashier that the system was suddenly broken, and I could only accept cash or the membership card of this store, I happened to be in a hurry without cash, and I was used to mobile phone payment, I asked her about when it would be repaired, and the cashier lady with two pigtails shrugged her shoulders very American and said that she didn't know, and then I could only be very embarrassed to put down the sandwich and prepare to go back to the place where I lived to get cash, and met a compatriot on the way back, I asked her if she could lend me 10 dollars I can Zelle transfer to her, she said no problem.
After finally changing to cash, I ran over to line up to order, I found that the order cost 10.59 dollars, and in the end it was still 0.59 dollars less, at this time I wanted to ask the cashier lady if I could change a slightly cheaper thing, but because I was nervous and didn't know how to speak, I stood there at a loss with 10 dollars of money, just when my brain was thinking about what to do in a few seconds, an American uncle wearing a black vest with golden hair behind me directly helped me pay, nodded and signaled that I don't have to worry, although it was just a small amount of money, but the American uncle's actions were completely unexpected by me, It can be said that beyond my cognition, usually a stranger will not care about you, but will only urge you to pay quickly and don't delay your time to buy things.
I'm a person who doesn't bother others, I always think that I don't want to cause trouble to others on my own, and I don't believe in the existence of luck, but at that moment I didn't have time to react, I was defenseless, and I was really warmed, I realized that sometimes you don't even need to ask for help, because there is still goodwill in this world, and there are still kind people who condense the real thing of luck, thank you, strange American uncle, I hope you can be sunny every day.
6: I saw a foreigner sister on the side of the local road, she was actually selling pancakes in a stall, 3 knives a pancake, not to mention that there are many people who eat it, but I feel that I am more skilled than her in this craft, otherwise I will come out at night to set up a stall to sell pancakes and make extra money.
The speed of her pancakes is a little slow, but the taste is OK, some of the ingredients used by the eldest sister may be different from those in China, the eldest sister said: Buy 2 pancakes and get 1 pancake as a gift (buy 2 pancakes and get 1 pancake as a gift), the old takeaway Chinese snacks are still very rare in the United States, and they are generally sold by Chinese.
I saw the old takeaway beef offal in the Los Angeles night market, and I saw many people on the Internet saying that foreigners don't eat offal, but look at this big pot like it doesn't look like boiling, and I drool when I see these, I really want to bring a bowl of rice to eat hahaha, tripe, beef intestines, and beef are boiled in a big pot, and it looks so cool that I want to eat it.
It is only 15 knives in a large portion, and the seasoning is added casually, it is really fragrant, the taste of each meat is quite unique, I like the beef intestines soft and chewy, and the avocado sauce can be more delicious.
7: The picture below is the hostel I live in the United States, the price of a night is 30 dollars, if it is not a working day to live will be cheaper, 25 dollars should be able to take down, the room is the kind of upper and lower beds, but very clean, especially which quilt is really neat, the first night only me and another 65-year-old German grandmother, she works in a non-profit organization, we talked for a long time in the evening, I told her that I am very confused now, go out and walk alone, want to find my passion for life, listen to her tell stories about her work and family, she told me that her family is sick, every day needs someone to take care of her, but need moneyShe hopes that her family will get better soon, because family members are more uncomfortable than sick people.
The picture below is the outside of the hostel, the scenery outside is like an oil painting, the outside of the hostel is the bus stop, it is very convenient to go out no matter where you go.