I bought a bag of salt at the grocery store and was looking for a salt shaker. No luck at all, nothing even remotely like a salt shaker. I was so confused as to how there could be salt but no salt shakers. How do people get their salt evenly and cleanly onto their food? Then I opened the bag of salt. It has the consistency and texture of brown sugar, there's no way it would pour out of a salt shaker like the granulated salt I am used to. It's eye-opening to realize how many of these cultural biases I have. The big ones you can try to prepare yourself for; these small ones catch you off guard, and I think it is the small ones that most contribute to culture shock over the long-term. As we (Peace Corps Volunteers) like to say, "Everything's the same, except it's all different."
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Must turn in my man card...since my first reaction seeing the raincoat is, "Hey, that's really cool!"
While I have "Devils Wear Prada," playing on DVD.
I showed it to my little bro, who is an artist, as I had slight guilt about paying that much for a raincoat. He loved it and told me I did the right thing buying it. YAY for little bros.