WILD Germany!

• Dudes wearing whites pants should be illegal
• Euro Money = Monopoly money, but in more colors and with coins
• It's weird seeing 16 year olds who are completely hammered
• I only got carded once in Germany, and it was when I bought some rum in a supermarket
• Germans like meat and potatoes, not green vegetables
• The pretzles in munich were HUGE!!!
• Drinking on the streets is the coolest thing ever
• Soccer is always on TV. Everywhere.
• No taxes. No/minimal tipping.
• Kitchens suck. No garbage disposals and you get fined if you don't put the plastics/glass/compost/waste in the proper container
• The education system is good and bad. Good - They do 2-3 internships in high school. Bad - They have a class system for schools, and if you are in the lower class system your career choices are limited to being the garbage man or the mcdonalds fry dude. No American dream attitude of "You can be whatever you want to be"
• People commonly go on 3-5 week vacations which is sweet
• The grocery stores are the worst. I've seriously had the most frustrating experiences so far at the grocery store. UGH!
• Egg yokes are orange not yellow (and taste better)
• Tons of cattle in fields! It looks like the meat is SOOOO much healthier than the crap we eat in America
• Dudes in speedos. Women without tops. A strange tradeoff...
• It's weird not being able to overhear any conversations. It's all just chatter to me
• All the houses are white! Some are a light yellow. But still, come on!
• Walking with hiking poles is super common and possibly a sport...
• Tons of blind people and people in wheelchairs use the public transportation system by themselves, and are incredibly self reliant
• The dialing tone for phones is different...
• My backpack is getting heavy...
• The train system is quite impressive over here
• I miss Jenny a lot. All the time.
• It's the wild west on the streets. Cars and people show no signs that they obey any sort of laws.
• So many people smoke cigarettes! There are even cigarette vending machines on almost every corner.
• There are only new cars on the streets. I swear, I haven't seen a car older than a 2000 something. I hear old cars go to Poland...
• German guys are pretty tall. I feel average height in Germany
• No free water at Burger King, or anywhere for that matter
• The McDonalds I went to didn't accept any debit or credit cards. Cash Only. And I was out of cash. Screw McDonalds even more now.
• Everything in a house is just different. It's weird. Too much to describe, but its just silly over here.
• Shops are closed on Sundays, and most stores close after 8pm.
• Where are the Walgreens/Right Aids?
• The streets are so skinny. I'd hate to drive here.
• American movies come to Germany 6 months after they play in America
• I hate that they are on military time over hear. "Let's meet at 19:30 ok?" Kyle, "Okay...." as I quickly try and figure out what time they really mean.
• The traffic signs make no sense, and their stop light are before the intersection...
• The "y" and the "z" are switched on the keyboards
• My phone is stuck in German, so I can barely understand how to use my phone
• Beck's beer is incredibly popular
• I swear, every German person has blue or green eyes.
• The diversity in Germany is strange. The only Asians there are tourists. I never saw someone from India in Germany. African Americans are about as common in Germany as at Cal Poly. And everyone else who is European is impossible to tell apart by looks (in my opinion)
• It was hot and sunny the entire time I was in Germany
• It took 2 weeks for me to meet anyone from America, and they were from Spokane Washington of all places. haha
• I'm gonna miss Germany and the fact that almost everyone can speak English