Things You Learn

This is a list of things you learn even if you have only been here a short time:

1. Take an umbrella with you whenever you go outside.
2. You will get charged for everything. We've had to pay for everything from a napkin at lunch, to use certain roads during certain times of the day, to park ANYWHERE, etc.
3. You don't have to tip. I tried to tip a taxi driver and he didn't understand at first. Bills for meals usually include a service charge, so you don't have to leave a tip.
4. People in the elevators don't have a sense of humor.
5. Don't expect people to hold the door open for you and they don't expect you to hold it open for them either.
6. When driving, don't be curteous. They don't understand what you are trying to do and it just confuses them.
7. Most of the people here are really friendly and curteous though when you speak to them in person.
8. We have copperheads and cottonmouths and they have spitting cobras.
9. At Mexican Food restaurants, chips and salsa are not free.
10. The whole chickens sold in the grocery store still have the head on them.