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So, contrasts between northern and southern germany...
1. Maybe it was just the city I lived in, but southern germany was a lot more green. Everybody rode bikes there. Here there are a lot more cars, there's litter on the street and I don't even have a recycle bin, let alone the multiple trash cans we had to use to separate our waste in Freiburg. (Admittedly, this is like a hotel, so maybe they're not expecting us dumb foreigners to get it...and I did see the separate bins on the street.)
2. Northern germans smell way better. It could have been all the exchange students or maybe just the warmer weather, but I felt like a lot of people had BO in the south...here they wear cologne (reasonable amounts too, which is more than I can say for most americans that try to put it on...)
3. There's a mall. There's a grocery store that's open until ten...o...clock. In short, they're turning more into america.
More to come...I don't have too much more here to do than observe...
1. Maybe it was just the city I lived in, but southern germany was a lot more green. Everybody rode bikes there. Here there are a lot more cars, there's litter on the street and I don't even have a recycle bin, let alone the multiple trash cans we had to use to separate our waste in Freiburg. (Admittedly, this is like a hotel, so maybe they're not expecting us dumb foreigners to get it...and I did see the separate bins on the street.)
2. Northern germans smell way better. It could have been all the exchange students or maybe just the warmer weather, but I felt like a lot of people had BO in the south...here they wear cologne (reasonable amounts too, which is more than I can say for most americans that try to put it on...)
3. There's a mall. There's a grocery store that's open until ten...o...clock. In short, they're turning more into america.
More to come...I don't have too much more here to do than observe...