1. Wine is free with most meals (including lunch) but you have to pay for milk for your coffee.
2. Public toilets usually have no toilet seat, and you have to pay to get it!
3. The streets run in every possible direction, and the intersections are circular. Have fun navigating!!
4. There are almost as many motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds as cars.
5. Most of the cars are small, and 2-seaters are not uncommon.
6. The student dorm rooms have a sink and a bidet, but no toilet. It's up to you to figure that one out.
7. Beer is considered a luxury drink and saved only for special occasions. (Imagine my horror.) Wine is essentially everywhere, often free.
8. When you sit down at a restaurant, they do not offer you a drink. When you order your meal, they do not offer you a drink. After your meal, they do not offer you a drink. It's just assumed that you will drink water and wine with every meal. Soda, juice, and beer are like special requests.
9. The coffee is like rocket fuel. Imagine espresso, make it taste more like crude oil with some camphor in it, double the size. After 2 or 3 of those, it's near impossible to type.
10. It is often hot, cold, rainy, sunny, storming, drizzling, windy, calm, and dry several times in the same day. Makes dressing in the morning the most complicated task of the day.
I thought these were pretty entertaining and several of these I had no idea about. Just goes to show that it's a good idea to do your homework before you leave.
~Loni
This is an excerpt from Austin at www.groundstate.ca/node/256
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