Thursday, October 16, 2008

INTERESTING TID-BITS

  • 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 =)