I guess I mentioned the hot water problem, the massive amount of people here and the street crossing problem, which is actually better explained in Derek's blog: http://mynameisderek.blogspot.com/2006/10/driving_18.html
Just remember if a car flashes twice, it won't stop. But that are not the only little differences so I decided to make a little collection of differences from each country compared to Germany that I'll hit. Here we go:
- People smile back at you and they actually mean it. It seems like it almost makes 'em feel special. A 'girl'(she was 32) once asked me to walk with her, just for the walk. She said she enjoys walking with me, so I did ;o) That one of these things that would never happen in Germany.
- Food is unbelievably cheep, but I think I mentioned that already.
- Baby's are allowed to use the street as a bathroom.
- There's no cheese and cream, except you buy it in a huge city and store it in the freezer for three month. So there was a time when we had real self made pizza and tacos, it was a festival!
- Milk and beer is pretty much always punched with water, you'll usually just taste the half of the whole possible taste. If you'll find a store where you can buy the complete stuff, tell me!
- Vegetables are enormous in size and everywhere they know how to make 'em taste awesome.
- The rumor that all Chinese people love eating dog, is definitely a lie.
- Crazy buses will give you a ride for 10 Cents and they'll let you out wherever you want to go off.
- Chinese people love soft music, Rock is very rare and they really enjoy singing too.
- Every tiny little space is used. They even build fields on rough mountains in the middle of the forest.
- Sometimes foreigners are treated like movie stars, which is a bit awkward.
- I couldn't find gloves fitting my long fingers, so I choose some without the fingertips. I wear 'em all the time, they are perfect especially to write on the board, to type and eat.
- Everything important you'll receive, you'll get it with two hands, not just business cards. And if that happens take it with two hands, too.
- If you can't eat with chopsticks, you'll probably die of starvation ;o)
- I never got so much invitations in such a short period of time from people who hardly knew me. It's amazing!
- People will tell you 'yes' and nod their heads, even though they have no clue what you're talking about.
- In the wintertime people wear up to six layers of clothing. Alice wore four pants the other day, no kidding! You know what and they still look really thin.
- They say the best medicine is to drink hot water and to wear more clothes, even if you just need a good drug to get the fever down.
- Teachers and students meet in their free time to hang out! I think I've never been to a teachers dorm when I was a student, except when I was in America, which doesn't count. So there you got your idols dear German teachers.
- Eat this: Another bad rumor I'd like to destroy: "Street food doesn't kill you!" Street food tastes awesome! The only time Angel and Brian got sick was when they went to MC Donald's!
- Schweiszen ohne jegliche Absperrungen auf offener Strasze - voellig normal.
- You will hear people making all sorts of weird noises to get their spite out of their throats. So if you hear some kind of snorkeling, roecheln, snaring, schnarchen, snoring or kraechzen, be aware and watch your next steps.
- Eating is a rather noisy thing, too. Everything that is forbidden at your mama's table is here definitely allowed. I assure you that you'll hear all sorts of schmatzen, katschen, schnorcheln, spitting and roecheln.
- Besides the daily announcements you can hear over the huge speakers all over the campus during lunchtime they also play some songs each day. Usually it's Chinese, but the other day they played Eminem. He's not known here at all and doesn't represent the standard music at all, that's why I was pretty impressed.
- Another thing that's not known in school, is the fact that you raise your arm if you want to say something. They'll just blur out the answer and everybody is doing this at a different time. So basically it's just loud ;o) which makes the lesson more lively though.
- They have playgrounds on the sidewalks and somehow they are all pretty good for your health. Everybody uses them no matter what age you are, it's pretty funny. My favorite one consists of two footpads that can swing separately back and forth. If you find a good rhythm it'll throw you up and down. It's awesome ;o)
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