--Everyone here smokes. Yes, an exaggeration. But compared to the U.S., it seems like everyone.
--No one eats on the Subte, the bus, or even walking down the street. They look at us with shock whenever we do this.
--People love to go out to dinner and socialize....but as Eve has hypothesized, this is not such a big food country, at least in terms of diversity. Most restaurants have a fairly limited set of options, and ethnic diversity is not so extensive. So many restaurants with varying decor and prices all have the same basic menu: some simple salads, a whole set of varying meat options (usually parilla al carbon -- a coal grill), and pasta.
--there was no kol nidre appeal (yes, Leslie, it's true). Remarkable.
--I was especially struck by the "al chet"s written by the shul for Yom Kippur: "for selling inferior quality merchandise" and "for believing that interpreting the laws of Torah will lead to the destruction of Judaism."
--I loved these two Spanish phrases in the list of sins: "murmuracion" is gossip. And for all those academics out there: the sin of using "palabras pretenciosas": pretentious words. Let's all work on that this year, okay?
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