Prior to arriving, I had been think a lot about the differences between the UK and the US, trying to prepare myself as best I could. However, there are tons of little things that never even occurred to me. Everything in the grocery store is just different enough to made shopping a bit tricky. When cooking some rice, I borrowed a measuring cup from my flatmate thinking "one cup rice, two cups water" and then looked down to find metric markings. I'm going to have to do some serious conversions if I want to do any baking here, otherwise it could be quite disastrous.
One of the things that really caught me off guard was that people tend to walk on the left as well as drive on the left. It totally makes sense, but I never would have thought about it before. However, a lot of time there seems to be no rhyme or reason to how people walk on the sidewalk and the streets. I think that system is called "people are oblivious". It's one I've noticed the world over.
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