Maine? Donde?

The first day I arrived, I told my host mother I was from Maine, showed her on a map and even gave her a calendar of Maine and New Hampshire scenes from the White Mountains. There were just blank stares, I could have said Nebraska and it would have sounded the same to her.

To clarify where Maine was I said, north of Boston. Now the woman thinks I'm from Boston. When I come home after school she asks me if it's cold out, and I usually say no. She always replies with something like, "I bet it's colder in Boston!" "I bet it rains a lot in Boston too," or  "It probably snows a lot in Boston."

After the word Boston left my mouth, she thinks I'm from there. It's easy to generalize a geographical area when you've never been there, but to me it's very different to be from Boston compared to Maine or New Hampshire.

I told my host mom my boyfriend was coming to visit me, and next the time her daughter came over she told her daughter my boyfriend from Boston was coming to Bilbao. Her daughter said, "Oh Boston?" And I said, "no, north of Boston, it's not Boston." 

Hmmfff. It's all the same to them. One time someone once asked me if living in the States was like the movie American Pie? Are you kidding me? What do these people think about America? Too many generalizations.