So for example, today I went running to the Central Park with my friend. At some point we turned onto the Fifth Avenue. Needless to say, it was really challenging to run among hundreds of people walking up and down the street. But everyone seemed to consider running in the busiest street in NYC as normal and acceptable. Then I imagined if I ran in the middle of the busiest street back home, in Zagreb for example (Cvjetni Trg on a Saturday morning), I'm sure people would be at least a bit surprised or consider us to be a little bit crazy.
Yesterday I sat down in a subway and the girl who sat next to me started talking (better said, rambling) about how her pants are low cut so she needs to sit down, otherwise everyone will see her ass. And she wouldn't stop chatting for 3 stations about it until I got out of the train. Funny enough, people were looking at me to see my reaction and I was pretending as if I didn't hear anything. It would have been great to have my earplugs on in that situation.
Last night I randomly ran into a friend who did the same exchange program in Switzerland. We haven't seen each other for 6 years, and then we end up having drinks at the same rooftop.
There are endless random and funny encounters, and I'm sure there are more to come.
