It's time to play everyone's favourtie game: Cultural Observations!!, where the massive generalizations I make have a p value far less than 0.05 and may or may not be based on single encounters.
1) The trendiest haircut in Mediterranean Europe is something we have nicknamed "mullet dreads". I know you're all reading this and hoping its not what it sounds like... but it's exactly what it sounds like. A 1980s Canadian must have come to Spain, hooked up with a Rastafarian, made some babies with hair styled halfway in between, and the marketed that idea until no end. It's a completely shaved head, with about 5 or 6 dreadlocks coming off the very bottom part of the back of the head... and even worse than how it looks is how shockingly popular they are. I know in North America we're usually a couple years behind the Euro trends... but I really hope this one never catches on.
2) Spanish dogs are the most well behave pets in the world. People just don't put their dogs on leashes in Spain. They just walk around with them in the city, and the dogs don't bother anyone. I have no idea how this works. My only plausible hypothesis is that Cesar Millan, after being born in Mexico, traveled to Spain to get in touch with another Spanish culture, and consequently righted every dog in the country.
3) Spanish children have no bedtime. Kids play in the streets until past midnight, and in general everything is a little later. I mentioned in my previous post that the clubs stay open until six. I think it's likely because of the siesta - a midday break (2-4) when everything shuts down and everyone takes a nap. If Stephen Harper instituted that in Canada, maybe I'd even vote for him next time (that's a lie).
4) There are more Australians in Europe than Europeans. I bet I've met half of Australia's 28 million people in the last week.. and they're always a great time.
5) Portuguese is just Spanish but with one of those head colds where you can't really pronounce any of your letters. Honestly. If you want to know any word in Portuguese, take the Spanish word, remove any of the sounds that make it sound like and actual word, add a sound similar to the "j" in the french je at random somewhere in the word, and you've got it. Basically just try and sound like a deaf Spanish person. As you can tell, I'm mastering the language beautifully.
It's been an amazing time so far. Internet and computer access are tough to come by, but I'll try and squeeze a couple more posts in before I head back to the red and white. Much love, muchos gracias, dos cervezas por favor.
1) The trendiest haircut in Mediterranean Europe is something we have nicknamed "mullet dreads". I know you're all reading this and hoping its not what it sounds like... but it's exactly what it sounds like. A 1980s Canadian must have come to Spain, hooked up with a Rastafarian, made some babies with hair styled halfway in between, and the marketed that idea until no end. It's a completely shaved head, with about 5 or 6 dreadlocks coming off the very bottom part of the back of the head... and even worse than how it looks is how shockingly popular they are. I know in North America we're usually a couple years behind the Euro trends... but I really hope this one never catches on.
2) Spanish dogs are the most well behave pets in the world. People just don't put their dogs on leashes in Spain. They just walk around with them in the city, and the dogs don't bother anyone. I have no idea how this works. My only plausible hypothesis is that Cesar Millan, after being born in Mexico, traveled to Spain to get in touch with another Spanish culture, and consequently righted every dog in the country.
3) Spanish children have no bedtime. Kids play in the streets until past midnight, and in general everything is a little later. I mentioned in my previous post that the clubs stay open until six. I think it's likely because of the siesta - a midday break (2-4) when everything shuts down and everyone takes a nap. If Stephen Harper instituted that in Canada, maybe I'd even vote for him next time (that's a lie).
4) There are more Australians in Europe than Europeans. I bet I've met half of Australia's 28 million people in the last week.. and they're always a great time.
5) Portuguese is just Spanish but with one of those head colds where you can't really pronounce any of your letters. Honestly. If you want to know any word in Portuguese, take the Spanish word, remove any of the sounds that make it sound like and actual word, add a sound similar to the "j" in the french je at random somewhere in the word, and you've got it. Basically just try and sound like a deaf Spanish person. As you can tell, I'm mastering the language beautifully.
It's been an amazing time so far. Internet and computer access are tough to come by, but I'll try and squeeze a couple more posts in before I head back to the red and white. Much love, muchos gracias, dos cervezas por favor.
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