SLOVENIAN GIRL IN USA: Baxter Lane, West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America

Hello my lovely ones...it is time for a new post :)

As you can se in the name of the post I am gonna tell you something about the place where I live. It is almost 20 months now since I am here and when I first came to Baxter Lane in West Orange I was so surprised. All the houses looked the same. I was wondering how am I ever gonna remember wich house is ours without looking at the mailbox with the number 35?!?

Well eventualy I got used to It and now I can find a way to our house with closhed eyes :) I love our neighbourhood because 1.) It is called Bel air of West Orange ( I feel like fresh prince of Bell air :)

2.) The area is very very nice and neat

3.) Free pool and gym at the clubhouse where we can also hang out with friends

Yea I admit it was hard in the beginning to go anywhere without navigation. Even to find my aupair friends, every time I put their adress in the navigation the navigation took me on different route. It was crazy but now I know how to go to most of the places that I usualy go without navigation. I can even find my friend Ajda in Connecticut without navigation and I am very proud of that. It is about 2 hours driving away. And NO my friends...streets here are deffinately not like steets in Slovenia. Highways are much wider, more exits, more names...exits do not have names but numbers....so for example...to go to Ajda I need to :

- go to I280 (interstate)

- turn right to Parkway north (yep very easy confused with Parkway south)

-follow until exit for Teppan Zee bridge

-follow to exit 9 S-N

-follow to exit 42 and than few more turns and you are there...

Its not like from Krsko to Ljubljana:

go on A2 and follow it from Krsko to LJubljana hahahaha :)

Ok let me tell you something about West Orange. Yea before I came I was laughing about that name (zahodna pomaranca :) ) but now it is very normal to me. Around West Orange we also have Orange, East Orange and South Orange. I would say West Orange and Sounth Orange are the most safe of all Oranges. East Orange is quite dangerous. I would not go there in the night. And unfortanately West Orange is the only Orange without a train station, so I need to drive to South Orange or to Orange to go on a train for New York City. But it is ok it is only about 10 minutes away. Not too bad.

West Orange is very known after Thomas Edison. Yep that is the one who invented the light bulb. When I first saw that he was from here I was pretty excited. Who knew I will once live where the light bulb was invented :)

Anyway even tho I am here for so long already I did not go to the Edison museum jet wich is very sad. I promisse I will go and I will write more about it than.

We also have ZOO in West Orange and it is very very cute.

So now you know a little bit about the town where I live and I hope you like to read my blog. Let me post some pictures...

The sighns for streets are a little bit ( a lot ) different thatn in Slovenia :)

Also speed limit sighns are different ! this is 30 miles per hours

One big difference between here and Slovenia is that here they have most of the electric and phone wires in the air when in Slovenia they are mostly underground.