brown cheese. ya either hate or ya love it. i'm in between.
Mother's Day is in February.
they don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
married couples wear their rings on their right hand. this led to a good week or so of total confusion as i would hear people talk about their husband or wife and i would see no wedding ring on their left hand. then i would see them cuddling up to a member of the opposite sex and think..."wow, Norwegians are friendly people..." then i figured out they wear their rings on their right hands. suddenly it all seems so clear...
when you enter a building, you push the door IN. you don't realize how different that is until you experience it. i never noticed how doors opened in the States. but now i find that half the time i think i'm locked out of a building because i go to pull the door open and it doesn't budge. this has led to many freak out sessions, thinking i'm forever locked out in the freezing Norwegian winter weather. just kidding.
toilets flush by pulling up on a knob on top of the toilet. this was the way it was in Estonia and Latvia, too.
contrary to other "cold-cultures", at stores in Norway the cashier usually hands you your change instead of putting it on a plate, like in Latvia.
cars actually stop for you at cross walks. this was true in Latvia, too. i am SO not used to that. well, i wasn't. now i am getting used to it. which could quite possibly endanger my life when i return to the States and go to cross the street, thinking the cars will automatically stop...
YWAM bases are notorious for bad coffee. i've determined this. that's not a Norwegian observation. that's just a YWAM observ...no, a YWAM fact.
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Of all those observations, I'd say the worst by far has to be the bad coffee! How can you handle it? You need a Starbucks fix!! There's one more reason to come to Lynchburg (um, just forget that they have on in Florida City ;) )!
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