- The customer is NEVER right
- You have to bag your own groceries
- The cashiers don't just hand you your change, they set it down and you have to pick it up
- You have to ask for your check, they don't always bring it out to you when you're finished
- For the most part, don't tip the waiters
- Kafa (coffee) is served with a glass of water
- If you seem foreign, employees may follow you around the store
- The milk is not refrigerated
- Nothing is handicap accessible
- People drive and park on the sidewalk
- It is no big deal to pass someone when there is a solid line - even tho its illegal
- The traffic lights go from green to blinking green to yellow to red to yellow to green
- For the most part, people do not know how to drive an automatic - have no idea how to start it or get it going
- The police don't chase you like they would in the states
- Sarajevo is the place where Franz Ferdinand was shot, which in turn started WWI
- The 1986 Winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo
- All the buildings are cement
- When you flush the toilets the water just goes down (not rise then down)
- Have washers, not dryers (takes up too much energy)
- There are several buildings that have holes in the side of them or small chunks missing - that is from the war here not too long ago
- There are spots on the sidewalks called 'Sarajevo Roses' and they are from hand grenades and mark where some people have died during the war
- The tram in Sarajevo was the first tram in all of Europe
- The high schools here are like trade schools
- Buildings with 5 stories or less don't have elevators
- There are pekaras (bakeries) on pretty much every block
- The bread is always made fresh each day
- Onions are in most meals
- No fast-food restaurants
- No hershey's cholocate... NO REESES!!!!
- The beds have a bottom sheet and a blanket
- The couches all pull out to make beds
- There is this park out by IlidΕΎa and the river comes from under the mountain
There is sooooooo much more, so I'll probably keep updating this list =)
3 comments:
did you write the list or find it? It's a great list and if you wrote it congrads on some great observations! It will be interesting to see what you find to be 'odd' here in the states once you get back!
Nice. Sounds a lot like here, except we have Burger King, Subway, Carl's Jr. and KFC. The problem is that service is really slow and it's very expensive - not really fast food!
Yeah, I wrote the list... there are lots more things I've noticed, but when I sat down to make the list this was all I could think of at the time. I'm sure more things will come to me =)
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