Ciao!
Living here has required some...adjustments. For example, most businesses close from 12 or 12:30 to 3:30 on business days-you gotta plan your errands like a boss over here, bikes and Vespas reign supreme-they get right of way so don't get in their way or they'll get in yours, there are acres upon acres of corn fields but no one eats corn-it all goes to the cows and pigs for feed, as a rule of thumb: if it's running it's not Italian-my friends think it's the most bizarre thing that I like to exercise, and a ton more. So for now I've taken some pictures of things that I've found funny, or frustrating or just plain odd. Enjoy. Alright, this is a brick of peanuts. Brick as in you could bang this thing against the wall and then you'd have a hole in the wall. The bag is packed full and then all the air is suctioned out of it. Why? I have no idea. I haven't seen any other nut product packaged in this manner. It's odd...what's also odd is that Stephen buys these bricks in 3 or 4 and they're usually gone in a week and half or so with a little help from Jessica and I. Boi be cray. European light switches. The bane of my existence. Okay so the first rule about these is light switches are on the outside of the room. For example, the switch on the left turn the kitchen light on, if you don't turn in on before for go in you're left in darkness and have to walk back out of the room to turn the light on-frustrating. Second, the switch on the far right turns on the far right turns on the living room light and the one in the middle...that is a mystery to us all. It does turn on the living room light but only sometimes. When the moment is right it works and when it's not you think the bulb burnt out-odd. Third, since these switches have no set on and off position like the ones back home depending on the last switch you used the up could be on or the up could be off and vis versa becuase of this I've taken up OCD and made it my mission to always have all switches facing the same direction-funny to watch, odd to think about, frustrating to act out. European outlets, they aren't just ghost stories we tell around camp fires. These nightmares are real. I still can't grasp why the world functions off of different outlets. Like, wouldn't the smart thing have been to hold an international conference when good ol' Benny discovered electricity and agree upon a standard outlet form? I guess not because I have to use converters to use electricity-frustrating. That's all I have for now, but totes more to come. That's why this is only part 1.
Ciao!
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