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What feels “normal” when you live in another country… isn’t always what you expect.

In this week’s episode of This Week in America, I found myself in two very different situations — standing beneath a Saturn V rocket that took people to the Moon… and sitting in a safe room at midnight during a tornado warning.

And somehow… both felt like just another part of the week.

That’s the shift you don’t really see coming when you move overseas.
Not the big differences — but the small, gradual ones.
The way unfamiliar things become familiar… and familiar things start to feel distant.

From extreme Tennessee weather swings…
to unexpected language overlaps like “reckon”…
to walking through American space history in Huntsville…
to spotting Australian lamb in a Costco aisle…

This episode is a quiet reflection on what changes… what stays the same…
and how living between two countries reshapes your sense of normal.

There’s also a bit of sport, a bit of Buc-ee’s, and a reminder that some parts of home never really leave you — they just show up differently.

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