A List of Firsts and Culture Shock

Some culture shock:
-Despite still seeing overweight people regularly here, I've noticed that the people who are thin are REALLY thin.
-Nobody is on time.
-Salad dressing is vinaigrette, no exceptions.
-Living life trumps work. Therefore, show up late, take a serious lunch break, and leave early. When even that isn't enough to make you happy, you go on strike. Vive la revolution!
-The women here are feminine and super confident.
-Everybody smokes everywhere.
-Coffee is a nasal-clearingly strong concoction in a mug so small it seems like a joke.

A few things I've experienced for the first time by coming here:
*leaving the United States
*leaving North America in general
*being in Europe
*seeing lizards in person
*acting like a tourist
*walking with a group of friends through a city at night
*seeing mountains in person
*getting immersed in a foreign culture
*riding a train
*seeing palm trees in person
*forgetting a word in my mother tongue but remembering it in my second language (unfortunately during a conversation in my mother tongue, ha ha ha)
*doing something huge and terrifying on my own

 This week is almost to an end already. I can't believe it.