Fitting in

Something that I would have typed a few weeks ago:
Hello, I received my insurance card in the mail and my first name was spelled incorrectly. How do I correct this as soon as possible? Thank you.

Something that I typed yesterday:
Good day, I received my NHS card in the post and my forename was spelled incorrectly. How do I correct this straightaway? Cheers.

Do I sound like I live in England now? I am proud to be an American and I really don't mind that I use different words and have an accent here but my goal while typing the message yesterday was to see if I could fit in here, even just for one minute. Since it was an email that I was typing, my accent would not give me away. Every day when I talk to someone here, they ask me where I am from. The man that delivered my groceries last week responded to my "hello, how are you" with - "well, heck, you are not from here!" The other thing that probably gave me away is that they don't usually say -'how are you'. They say - 'ya'll right'? It is said fast and almost like it is all one word. It took me awhile to realize that and in the meantime, I thought, gosh, I must really look like something is wrong all the time. I also tried to make reservations for a restaurant on Saturday and I said to the man that answered the phone - "I would like to make a reservation for 6:00 p.m." and was met with a big fat silence and then a "pardon?" I realized I needed to say it differently, so I mentally went through my new vocabulary and came up with --"I need to book a table for 1800." Bingo --that was it! And even today, another expat and I were talking about bed sizes at Starbucks (they are small, small, small here...what they call king size is like a double bed in the US!) and the lady in front of us turned around, didn't even ask us where we were from and said --"YES - we went on vacation in the States and the beds there are HUGE! We loved them." There is no hiding that we are from another country!
And good news!! Our sea shipment has arrived AND has already cleared customs. It is set to be delivered on Friday morning. We are all so excited!! It will be like Christmas --opening the boxes of all of our things. An idea is forming....maybe that is a way to save money...hide the kids things for a few weeks, and then have them reopen them all. Bean has been waiting for her guitar, her bike and her scooter --she will be so excited. This will make for a good weekend!