Blowing up the learning curve

With less than a month until I return to the United States for my reverse culture shock period, I wanted to take some time to reflect on a few things I've been learning over here. 

Here's just a few tidbits.....

-Hershey chocolate is excuse my language….. crap

-I am really good at unloading the dishwasher and even better at accidentally hiding the dishes

-Nobody likes to change the toilet paper roll or be seen eating the last piece of chocolate

-Watches are great, even on the wrong arm

-You can live without a cell phone

-hedges are especially useful when it’s raining and beautiful when it’s not

 

-if you find a weird rash, show someone ASAP

-language barriers are barriers not the Hoover Dam.  You can get around them

-always go to the bathroom when you have the chance…. Especially when you are going to be driving through The Republic to get home

-Euros are great when traveling around Europe, except when you show up in a country where you can't use them

-“I’ll see you again” can come true

 

-animal sounds are not the same in every country

-music is truly a language all itself

 

-sometimes things taste better when you don’t know what they are

-good people are everywhere

-riding trains is a perfectly wonderful way to travel

 

-different does not mean bad or wrong.  It means different

 

-people who like liver should eat whale

 

 

-life without peanut butter is difficult but not impossible, as long as there is still nutella

-extra batteries work great… until you wash them

-Europeans don’t rinse their dishes

-It takes a LONG time to wash a load of laundry and even longer to hang dry

 

-pictures are important.  You never know when it will be the last one

 

-Sandwiches do not need a top slice of bread

-Soccer is a big deal everywhere but in the USA

-Wool thermals = get some

 

-it is ok to not know where you are going

 

-sister mail is one of the best inventions ever

 

-stereotypes often over shadow the truth

 

-farmers talk about the weather in every country

 

-once you travel, you can never be the same