I keep telling people back in the US about how things are strange here... but I can't think of good examples because I think I am getting accustomed to them (there's that word again).
It is interesting, however, that the longer I am here - the more I realize how much I don't understand. It is the little things...
Like a guy sitting in the median of a highway blowing the whistle for no apparent reason. Is he directing traffic? It doesn't seem so.
Or, the bus driver beginning to role away as you board the bus... right after your friends boarded just fine. He calls out that he is not leaving, just moving. Why didn't he move after I got on? Someone on the bus comments that I must not speak Spanish. There is a difference between understanding what someone says and why they are saying it. I understand what people say... but the rational is still a mystery to me.
Or how so many random clothing stores for dogs stay in business....?
Or why my student cancels her classes 10 minutes before I go to her house?
The deeper I get, the more I can see the little things that I didn't notice before.
The more I observe, the less I understand.
Do you see many dogs wearing clothes there?
ReplyDeleteActually it's a common experience as people develop expertise in a subject that they realize there is so much more to understand.
Good realization about understanding less as you observe more.