What is different?

Hey guys!

So seeee as I promissed I am back! Today I will try to write some differences between Slovenia and USA.
There is many but let me just tell you about some :

1. Right turn on red traffic light.

Yes you heard right. Here in US on most of the traffic lights you can turn right even if the traffic light is red. You have exeptions on big or dangerous intersections of course but otherwise I think this is a pretty good thing. You still need to stop and yield to all the cars that are comming from your left but once they are gone you can go. I am happy oh so happy about that rule :) I think all of you know how painful it is to wait if there is no cars :)

2. Football is NOT soccer !

Well this is still hard for me sometimes even tho I am here for a year and half already. When somebody asks me: do you like football? I need a second to realize they are talking about American football and not Soccer. I guess it is hard to get used to it because we call soccer football in Slovenia...Oh well :) 

3. Free refills 

Oh God this is killing me! Everywhere you go (well almost everywhere) where you can but food and get drinks you get a free Refill wich is very dangerous. Well at least for me. If I know I can take more drinks for free of course I will drink more of crapy soda :) haha... but sometimes I think it is so silly...because they ask you if you want small, medium or large drink... but if you have free refills...doesn't really matter if it's big or small because you just refill it...hahahah :) I am not sure if they will ever do that in Slovenia. I guess we are just to greedy.

4. Vacations

America is the country with the least paid vacation in the world. Yes they are free some days like labor day, christmas and 1st of January...but that is about it. Do you know what is the week between christmas and New Years called here? NOTHING! because they need to work. :) haha... In Slovenia most of the companies close their doors before christmas and open them again in January...well...not here..

5. Mail

Nobody here really uses mail but you get tons of mail in the mailbox every day ! Yep it is like that. If you go to the store and buy something they will send you coupons and sales for every thing they have. And nope...you can't really get rid of it. It is very annoying.

6. Tips !!!

Tips are very important here in US and it can get confusing. For example: if you are in slovenia and you go eat out and you want to buy a meal that costs 8 dollars and you have 10 dollars you have enough money for the meal (and you probably can buy a drink too), but here in USA it's not like that. If the meal is 8 dollars your 10 dollars wont be enough. Because after that 8 dollars comes the tax wich is about 8% and in the end you need to tip at least 15% of the bill so yea...if you have 10 bucks...you will be hungry.
Tipping is far the most annoying thing ever here ! and if you don't tip good...you are not really welcome to that restaurant anymore. I guess that is why we go to Taco bell or Burger king or Chipotle more often...no tip :)))

7.  Drink options

There is so many different options of drinks in America!!! Cola, Diet Cola, Chery Cola, Vanila cola, Lemon Cola, Cinamon cola, Diet chery vanila Cola... Diet pepsi, Chery pepsi, Strawberry pepsi, and I can go on and on and on also with waters, sprite and million of different drinks they have. In slovenia we have Cola and Diet cola. That is about it. Why do they do so many tastes? It is just silly.

8.  The weather channel

haha there is a channel on TV that has weathr on all the time. Weather at 8 am, at 5 pm and at 12 am. It is just silly.

9. Cars beep when you look them

How annoying is this? Every time you look the car it makes the silly sound. And yea every brand of car has different sound. Funny story...when I went home in February and took the car to go to store I locked it and did not hear anything (like every normal car in europe) and was standing there in front of it pressing the lock button talking to myself in english : why dont you lock? I even unlocked it and went to open and close all the doors again... oh well :) silly me haha

10. Language and traveling

When you travel in Europa you should know a bit of the language to where you go or at least speak english. In America. Wherever in USA you go they speak english. They have the same stores...it's not really so different from each other. In Europe we have 24 different languages and here...they just speak english. In Europe every country is different...here everything is pretty much the same :)

Well I think that is it for now and I promisse I will be back soon !

If you find any other interesting difference let me know in the comment !

Sabrina