OCT 27th
- No free refills at restaurants. All drinks come in bottles.
- No stop signs or traffic lights in the cities.
- Some things like cheese and wine can be really cheap in the groceries store. ($1.50 for cheese, $5-6 for wine.
- Main meals are lunch ( around 2 pm) and dinner (around 10 pm) with breakfast (morning) and merienda (around 5 pm) being light and consisting of pastry or bread and coffee
- Drinking mate is social tradition. Drank everyday and on long car rides.
- Refer to most people from the US as Yankees. Which is interesting because unless you are from NYC or northern state I would assume you don't consider yourself a Yankee.
- Argentinean tend to not like Donald Trump
- People drive on their motorcycles while they hold their helmet in their hands.
- The homeless dogs are really sweet and well behaved.
- Music in English is really common
- People wear shirts with English words (I wonder if they know what it means)
- Taxi rides are very cheap ($5 for I decent distance)
- Asado is also social tradition and consists really good different cuts of meat
- Its free to see a doctor
- At 2 pm to 5 or 6 pm business's close for siesta and then open again 6 pm to 10 pm
- Gaucho shoes and garb is common and fashionable... our version of cowboy
- The only people of color here are seem to be actually from Africa and here to sell stuff on the street.
No comments:
Post a Comment