Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Second List of Differences

K so it's been a while, and I have been meaning to update this list so here gose:

  • Traffic lights, they go: green, yellow, red, (wait for it!!!) then red AND yellow, back to green!!! It's like a get ready to go warning! varry nause!!!
  • They pronounce skype: scoo-pay
  • You can buy pre-made burgers, buns and all, in bags in the grocery store!
  • I've only seen like 2 stop signs the entire time I've been here, it's all yeilding with these people
  • No school sports or clubs for after school, or before school...
  • FREE LUNCH AT SCHOOL!!!
  • 99% of cell phones are Nokia
  • What the kids ride to school with, scooters, mopeds, mopoauto (like a moped car, they're so little and here they are considered mopeds because of the size of their engin, so kids can get a licence for those things at the age of 15) there are also kids who ride their dirt bikes, quads, mini motor bikes, and today I even saw this kid leave the parking lot in a smaller sized tractor. I go to Sanni: now that's got to be weird even for you! She gose "not really." CRAZYNESS!!!
  • They're always taking their shoes off
  • Eggs come in cartins of 6 or 10, and they keep them in the cupboard, for the longest time I didn't think Finns used eggs, but one day I opened a cupboard, and BAM! like 2 cartons! hmmmm
  • In the kitchen there is this drawer that is specifically designed for slicing bread! It's like the best thing since sliced bread!!! wait a minute.....
  • What old people use to get around, its like a walker mixed with a scooter! like <----!!!! It's so funny for me to see a bunch of old people, like an old persons gang, rolling down the side walks in these puppys headed to SMarket (my favorite store!)
  • Oh that reminds me! At SMarket (and all other stores), to get in you have to go through these, smilar to subway turnstile, but instead they are atomatic, one-way motion deceted gates, I guess so you have to exit the store by passing the check-out line... So you have to buy something ; )
  • Also! In all the grocery, and convince stores there are slot machines!!! wooo big money!
  • And you have to buy the plastic bags you put your purchased items in. (so far I've managed to just shove everything in my bookbag so I havent had to buy one yet)
  • The crutch style here, they use forearm crutches, look em up, my friend Reeta is on them right now, she says they are way more comfortable then the crutches that I'm used to seeing, she says with these you can still run and play sports (which is exactly what you are suposed to be doing when you're in crutches!!!)
  • Water fountains, the water comes AT you instead of to the side (kinda annoying and hard to get used to)
Thats all I got for now, Again I know there is WAY more but I just can't remember them/haven't discovered them yet... ha

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