Top 5 Thing I instantly loved about the European lifestyle:
1. Fresh Bakeries and produce everywhere you go.
2. Cafes, beer drinking and difference in night life (not that I'm fully engaged in any of those but the possibilities seem endless :))
3. Intense sport culture.
4. Tons of things to film and take pictures of (now I just need some better equipment)
5. The laundry - the detergent smell is so differently fresh and they don't use dryers so everything is hung to dry, just the way I like it haha.
Top 5 Things I'm still adjusting to:
1. Milk that isn't kept in the fridge when bought, doesn't seem natural.
2. Sub-titles and some very interesting television.
3. How to speak translatable English - leave out words, use basic sentences, speak slowly …. oh and sarcasm is lost in translation - so basically I don't talk much … jk.
4. Having to do currency conversions between Dinars, Euros, US dollars, and Canadian dollars - as much as I'm a numbers person it can get very confusing when trying to make split-second decisions on purchases.
5. The traffic - the bus is insane busy all the time, driving is not for any one with heart problems and putting your body on the line to cross the street is the norm.
Top 5 TV Shows (bet you haven't heard of at least one of them, they are priceless in many ways haha ... my tv watching is has declined a lot):
1. Rita Rocks
2. Sam Who?
3. Cupid
4. Extreme Survival
5. Hallmark movies
Top 5 Mind-Blowing Scenes I Have witnessed:
1. The military practicing open range fire in a field by the side of the highway - no fence or barrier between the road and their targets. I'm truly Canadian in that hence and think it a very strange site to see guns outside of police's gun holsters.
2. Boys full out playing marco-polo in a huge fountain outside of the parliament buildings - no one seemed to care and they looked like they were having the times of their lives! (think that would fly in the Lincoln memorial? haha).
3. There is a very big wild dog population here, it's hard getting use to the fact that they can be seen dead on the side of the road - which we refer to as road kill ...
4. There have been many 'life changing' traffic experiences but the most outrageous has to be the crazy passes on two lane highways. People will go even if they know there is an on coming car. They fully expect them to move over so the road can be shared by all three cars side by side! (Oh and I can officially say I have been in a vehicle that was traveling at a comfortable speed of 200km/h to keep up with traffic - insane!)
5. Not outrageous but beauty that was hard to picture before.... The way older people work in the country side. I see them every morning riding on their tractors to the fields - women with the handkerchief over theirs heads walking hand in hand with friends. A man putting along with an cigarette hanging out of this month, with no hurry in his world. I mean we see these images on tv, movies or are told about them but it's a totally different experience to see it (thought it would be a little on the creepy to take pictures of them no matter how much I want to haha).
Anyways I could go on but that is just a little taste of some of changes and the new kind of busyness that is going on in my life. Talk soon.
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it." JAMich
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