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Huge flying cockroaches, but at least there's the beach, right?

Hey everyone, Dana here!

Before moving to Europe, I lived in sunny South Florida, and there were some things

that I loved about life in South Florida

and there were some things that I definitely could have done without.

So let's take a peek behind the curtain at life in South Florida.

And speaking of sunny South Florida, the weather was a huge plus.

Before moving to Europe, I had actually no idea how much I took the weather

in South Florida for granted.

It was just sunny so much of the time.

Like for example, I would plan a pool party in the summer and sure, it was probably going to

rain for about an hour in the afternoon, but other than that, you had a pretty good

chance of it being sunny weather.

Most of the time when planning events, especially events not in the summer, so not during the

rainy season, it just never really even crossed my mind that the weather might not be good.

Like, sure, okay, yes; sometimes it surprised us and the weather wasn't good, but I would

say most of the time the weather was just pretty nice.

But in the summer, yes, sometimes a little bit too hot.

You had to kind of work around the heat.

As I mentioned in this video about how hot it got in South Florida, it got really hot

in South Florida, and you can check that out for more information.

And what goes great together with sunny weather?

Why the beach of course.

When I was younger, looking back on it now, I feel like I just didn't really go to the

beach enough, nor did I appreciate it enough, but as I got older then I really started loving

the beach, and now it's one of the things that I super, super miss about Florida.

I just love walking along the beach, listening to the relaxing sound of the waves,

the seagulls overhead. Yeah. I really miss the beach.

It's one of the things I really miss about Florida.

But something kind of shocking about the beach in South Florida is that in the summer the

water is actually really warm in a lot of places.

It's often pretty shallow water, and at one in the afternoon it can definitely feel

like bath water.

You're chilling on the sand, get a little warm and think like: ah, I'm going to go cool

off in the water.

Nope, that often just backfires, and it makes you even warmer after you go for a dip in

the water than before.

Okay, so now how about something that I did not like about Florida: the bugs.

Cockroaches. These huge ones with wings, they would fly right at you sometimes.

Fire ants. Had to make sure you didn't step on the wrong pile

or they'd crawl up you leg and attack.

Humongous mosquitoes.

Tiny little ants that we called sugar ants. And more!

South Florida was home...or is still home, but I'm not there, to lots and lots of bugs.

We had to keep basically everything food-wise either in the fridge or sealed away in a plastic

bag in the panty.

You leave the raisins sitting in the pantry not sealed in a plastic bag?

There's a good chance that they would then be crawling by morning.

Another thing that I really hated about living in South Florida was the intense focus on beauty.

In South Florida there was a lot of pressure coming from all over the place to look perfect, flawless.

No flaws allowed.

Mr. German Man was pretty shocked when he came back with me to Florida for the first

time and we listened to the radio in the car and when the ads came on it really felt like

every other advertisement was for some kind of cosmetic surgery, botox, teeth whitening,

hair removal, hair implants, liposuction, permanent make up...the list goes on.

And as if the radio advertisements weren't enough, the road, itself, was plastered with these

huge billboards advertising basically the same thing using the most beautiful, "perfect"

models to show you what you could be, "should be" of course.

So that was a pretty hard place to spend my teen years, with that kind of intense focus

on looking perfect, feeling pushed toward the need to strive for this impossible perfection

all the time; all around me.

And lastly, speaking of driving around in the car, just driving there in general was, yeah, bad.

First of all, the road rage was intense and scary.

And then it also just seemed like so many people in South Florida drove wild and crazy.

And learning to drive in South Florida, the catch phrase that was always thrown around

was "defensive driving."

I was told over and over and over again that in South Florida I needed to learn

how to drive defensively. Yeah, it was just a very, um, intense place to drive.

And whenever I drove out of town and then came back to South Florida, I didn't need any

mile markers on the highway to tell me that I was almost there.

I knew that I was almost home when the driving changed.

I could really feel that shift that suddenly people started driving really crazy.

So my question for you is: Have you ever been to Florida?

What did you love and hate about it?

And what do you love and hate about the place where you grew up?

Please let me know in the comments below. Thank so much for watching.

I really hope that you enjoyed this video.

If you enjoy my videos, please don't forget to subscribe to the channel and hit that like button.

And also a really big thank you so much to our patrons on Patreon who help make these

videos possible.

Thank you so much for your support.

If you would like to check out our Patreon page, you can find a link to that down in

the description box below.

Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!

You want to leave those...nah.

It just never really even crossed my...

January was a little cold. I'm not a very good snapper. These are my best snaps though.

There were a lot of bugs.

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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Death in Germany & USA - Duration: 7:52.

Halloween is just around the corner, so let's talk about something that scares us and makes

us feel a little bit uncomfortable -- or at least makes me feel uncomfortable -- death.

Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.

In two days it will be Halloween, a holiday during which millions of people in the U.S.

and more and more people in other parts of the world dress up in scary costumes.

Some people, as I explained in last year's Halloween video, dress up in funny or sexy

costumes too, but the holiday itself is in general still about the celebration of things that

haunt and terrify us. One of those things being death.

Death is something that we often try to avoid talking about the whole rest of the year,

and then kind of let ourselves go crazy with on certain days, for example Halloween in the U.S.

So in honor of Halloween, I thought that I would make a video talking exactly about that

very uncomfortable and terrifying topic.

Because while death is something that we all have to face, it is handled differently in

some ways in Germany and the U.S.

For one, because death makes us feel uncomfortable, in both cultures we have a lot of euphemisms

for death.

In fact, I could probably spend a whole video just talking about sayings related to death,

but I'll just mention a couple of them here.

In English some idioms for "to die" include pass away, which is a polite ways of saying it,

as well as some more crude sayings like to bite the dust and to kick the bucket.

In German there's actually a similar saying to bite the dust except instead of dust, in

German it's grass -- ins Graß beißen.

And a polite way of saying it that's kind of like to pass away in German is

von uns gegangen, which literally means "went from us."

Another more crude way of putting it in German is abkratzen, which basically means something

like in English "to croak."

And then in German there's also den Löffel abgeben, which literally means in English

"to give up the spoon."

And in English I also know of two idioms that describe a person actually being dead:

six feet under and pushing up daisies.

And speaking of pushing up daisies, as far as I could find, in the U.S. when you purchase

a cemetery plot you're basically paying for that plot for "forever."

Of course at some point in the future it could happen that that land starts being used for

something else, but the general idea is that you are buying the cemetery plot for "forever."

So for the foreseeable future "forever."

Whereas in Germany that's not the case.

In Germany the cemetery plots are actually rented.

Exactly how long the rental period is differs around the country, but it's often around

20 to 30 years.

And for some graves, after that time the family can renew the rental, but for some types of

graves they can't.

For some types of graves that's it; you just get the one rental period.

And one difference that I've noticed as far as the cemeteries go is that in the U.S.,

from my experience and from what I've seen on American TV shows and in movies, because,

you know, that's a great place to get the most accurate information, movie and TV shows...but

yeah, from what I've seen, it seems like in the U.S. people often visit the grave of a

loved one on a special day of the year, for example maybe an anniversary.

And then they often bring a bouquet of flowers to lay on the gravestone.

Whereas in Germany I've seen people visiting the grave or graves of their family members

every week.

They go there, put out new candles, they light the candles, they place new flowers on the

grave, and they clear away any leaves that have fallen on the grave.

They pick out the weeds that have grown there, really tidying up the grave or graves on a

pretty regular basis.

Something else that I have heard of and have seen happen here in Germany that I personally

haven't ever seen or heard of happening in the U.S. is that sometimes in Germany when

a person dies at home, instead of the deceased being picked up right away, the body is kept

in the home and friends and family can come over and say their final goodbyes, gather

around together and cry, tell stories.

And then later on in the evening, the deceased is picked up and taken to a funeral home in a hearse.

Like I said, I don't have any experience with that happening in the U.S., and I don't

really recall ever seeing it in any American movies or TV shows or hearing about that from

my friends or anything like that.

I think that usually the deceased is picked up right away, but I would love to hear about

your experience with it down in the comments. Thank you.

Also while in the U.S. cremation I would say is a pretty common thing, in Germany the option

of cremation is still a relatively new one, and up until rather recently even if someone

was cremated in Germany those ashes still had to be buried, whereas now from what I

could find Germany has started to allow the possibility of ashes, for example, being strewn

in a cemetery, rather than being buried.

Or brought out to sea, beyond the three mile limit. But that's it.

Unlike in the U.S. where many families keep the ashes at home in an urn, which is sometimes

put up and displayed in the living room.

And as far as funerals go, in both the U.S. and Germany black is the traditional color

worn for mourning.

And in Germany after the funeral it's a common tradition for the family of the deceased

to provide what is called Beerdigungskuchen, literally "funeral cake."

So my question for you is: What are your thoughts on this topic and how are things surrounding

death done differently in other places?

Please let me know in the comments.

Thanks so much for watching, I really hope that you enjoyed this video about a little

bit more of a creepy topic this time.

And also a really big thank you so much to our patrons on Patreon, who help make these

videos possible.

Thank you so much for your support.

If you would like to check out our Patreon page, you can find a link to that down in

the description box below.

Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!

Yeah, but I laugh when I am talking about topics that make me nervous.

I start to laugh.

And then people are like, this isn't funny.

And I'm like no, I don't think it's funny, I'm just nervous.

For more infomation >> HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Death in Germany & USA - Duration: 7:52.

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Maradona's 5 FIFA World Cup™ Moments - Duration: 4:30.

It was against Hungary in 82. The ball was there and I just dived in head first. I didn't care

if the Hungarian defender was going to leave his studs on my head. I wasn't bothered.

How did it feel to score your first goal at the World Cup proper?

It felt amazing when the ball bounced up off the keeper and I beat my marker to it.

It's like touching the sky. It's like... There are so many things that go through your head.

There are times when the opposition goes too far. They want to make fun of you and knock the ball around.

Falcao started to say, 'Knock it around! Knock it around! Knock it around! Knock it around!' And I was fed up of them

making fun of me. I just wanted to get hold of Falcao

anywhere I could and at any price.

They played a one-two and I said to myself, 'This one's mine.'

And it was Batista, of course. It was Batista. When I saw Falcao I said to

myself, 'What have you done, you idiot? You kicked the wrong one!' It was awful.

It's the best goal I ever scored, no question. We all dreamed about dribbling past the whole lot of them, including Shilton.

I'm still looking for an explanation for what

Shilton did. I can't find one. I don't know what he did.

I sold him a dummy, yes. I sold him a dummy, but he's still got to block part of the goal from me.

And when I went by him I clipped it with the outside of my boot. Butcher came in and whacked me

on my right side. It was a straight red. It didn't bother me.

Brazil had us under siege the whole game.

They didn't give us any space. The thing was, a light just switched on inside me.

That's when I woke up and said, 'I'm going to take them on. Let's see what happens.'

I see this flash of white [Caniggia] ahead of me, but I overrun the ball a bit. So I hit it

with my right and it goes straight through Ricardo Rocha's legs.

I was lying on the ground shouting, 'Hit it! Hit it! Hit it!' But he didn't. He feinted and then he feinted again

and again. We were all waiting on him! And so, we won with that goal from Cani, who really made us suffer.

This is very special, because that penalty was the toughest one of my career, because

I'd just missed against Yugoslavia. I put the ball down and

Zenga says to me, 'I know you.' And I say to him, 'I know you better.' And when I stuck it

past Zenga's foot I said, 'Ciao'. It was me who knocked Italy out because Serena missed his

penalty just after that. So it was me who knocked the Italians out of the World Cup in 1990.