-every beverage here tastes like metal. it is seriously ridiculous. i have had numerous wines, beers, diet coke and waters that taste like metal. i also have a fear of lead poisoning and this does not make me feel better. also sometimes the food tastes metalic but people tell me it is just me who tastes this.
-we went to the store the other day and i was excited because i bought some butter. i bought butter in a box rather than in little tubs, which is how most of the butter comes, because i wanted a real stick o' butter. when i got home i realized that i had not in fact bought 4 sticks of butter but rather 20 individual servings of butter like you get at a restaurant. i laughed at myself because it is the typical "im a foreigner and dont really understand what is going on" thing to do. then i decided to put my little container of butter in the microwave because, as some of you know, i do not like hard butter. i put it in and immediately it started sparking because i neglected to remove the foil cover. i am generally very careful about not microwaving metal because i find the effect scary but, honestly, because i am in a foreign country-i. am. stupid.
-some other funny foreigner things we have done here: bought fabric softener and washed our clothes with it thinking it was soap; tried to see if we could rent rooms (to live in for the rest of the year) at a hotel; played cards for 2 hours at a bar only to find it is illegal to play cards in public areas in portugal; walked into mens bathrooms countless times; stolen someones cart at the supermarket in front of them; etc. dont even get me started on some of the grammatical mistakes i have made that are embarrassing. i suppose it is humbling and good for me-but for now it is mainly embarrassing and amusing.
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