1. Trees EVERYWHAARR. The town doesn't even look like a town, it looks like a village in a forest that just takes a bit longer to drive through than you'd expect of a village.
2. NO SIGNPOSTS ON CAMPUS. Yes that's right. No sign to Reception, no sign to the Library... Hell, not even a sign on the OUTSIDE of the buildings. THAT'S RIGHT. I'm in some sort of snackbar that puports to be near the Library. But I have no way of telling what this place actually is. NO. FRICKIN'. SIGNS. I'm working at the Institute for Polymerkwerkstoffe etc. but all it says outside is a big "6". WTF. The only way I found the International Office was by the large crowd of foreign student-y looking chaps and chapesses outside. Seriously. No signs AT ALL. 0_o
3. Driving on the wrong side of the road. :P
4. People are either VERY helpful or VERY rude. Like, going out of their way to be extra nice and ensuring you have everything you need. Usually in semi-perfect English. That or crossing the street to avoid you, while scowling like a scalded cat.
5. Aldi has pretty much all the food it has in England... only at 2/3 the price and 3x the amount of sausage you'd expect. Also, they lack decent cheese. It's all Gouda or Emmental. Yeuuuuccchhhhh. And the chocolate is inexplicably mostly dark chocolate. I had to root around for the milk choc, behind all the "bitter" stuff. But then I spied Kaffee Creme, which is om-nom-nom white chocolate on a layer of om-nom-nom milk coffee-flavoured chocolate. Om nom NOM.
6. They have furry Ugg-style boots here too =] although I seem to be the only person wearing them.
7. They have dog parking places - No, seriously. Pic to follow!!
8. It's so clean, even the builders put down dustsheets to protect the pavements. Yes, there are dustsheets under the scaffolding to protect the PAVEMENT. Crikey!!
