Title: 10 Things no one tells you about Germany

P.S. Hey World!

1. There is no such thing as public toilets which means that unless you are at an event or inside a restaurant you will have to PAY TO USE THE TOILET, this also goes for gas stations..

2. Words are way too long but when you really take them in, its actually two words put together for a certain purpose like to have the word Street "Strasse" attached to it  or School "Schule"

3. Places may not have the name you thought it had because there is actually a German version and an English version (maybe its the same for other languages but I am an English speaker), so ex. Munich is actually Munchen which is a lot harder to say that it looks because that U is actually hard it has two dots at the top

4. Germany or Deustchland as they would call it actually has a couple different states. In Bavaria which is where I am staying boast itself of not only being home of the best cars in the world but having a different kind of German which has different words and saying such as GusGod instead of the Hallo and Savos instead of the normal Chus. My spelling may bit off, but my point is when you come to Germany with your learnt German from school you have to be aware of the different dialects.

5. Just because a word looks like something you should be able to pronounce that doesn't mean it is. W is pronouced as Vey and V is pronounced as Fow or something like that.

6. They don't have police roaming the highways and streets catching these fast drivers who do not obey the speed limits they just have cameras everywhere just waiting to snap a pic of you and send you your speeding ticket via post. In fact, I'v hardly seen police outside of their cars but then again I haven't been to Oktoberfest yet.

7. They are much smarter than you think so they pull out statistics and geographic information that you don't know without checking google like what is the population of your city and how many kilometres is it. Speaking of their English is usually pretty good.

8. Which brings me to another point they talk distance in measurement like how many metres or kilometres is that place to that place and they seem to know it quite acurately. The fact is most Canadians will say it about two hours away etc. and actually have no clue about the kilometres or metres.

9. There is a beer culture, okay so if you know anything about Germany that was is not a surprise but did you know there are certain rules to the beer drinking? like in the morning you have this and you have this bear and that together. Personally I am not a beer lover so they have this great thing called Radtler which is like a lemon light beer..like a half and half

10. The Street lights are a little confusing instead of being above the road it is actually on the sides. When driving on the Auto Ban  espcially in Lower Saxony the speed limits change drastically I think to give you a ticket. So example no speed limit then all of a sudden it drops to a 100 keep in mind people such as my boyfriend drive 230 often so getting of that grove can be confusing for some especially if there is no construction on the road.

Hope you enjoyed it!