De meest herkenbare feiten uit het lijstje...

• - You see semi-naked girls in the streets and boys wearing t-shirts with temperatures below zero.
• - You wake up every morning knowing that it's quite unlikely that you're going to see the sun.
• - You see people drunk in the streets at 8pm.
• - You are kicked out of a pub at 11.30 pm
• - You've said 'cheers mate' more than twice
• - You've seen naked women on the second (and first, and third...) page of the daily newspapers.
• - You see Tesco as an important social meeting point.
• - You have seen old people smiling at you in the street
• - You have been asked for 'some spare change' by an unknown person.
• - You've had a Full English Breakfast with bacon, eggs, sausages, beans, etc and you think it's amazing
• - You've thought more than ten times that the car you have just seen was driven by nobody
• - You see a group of people wearing fancy dresses every time you go out at night.
• - You have been in a pub next to a really drunk lady, that you think could even be your grandma.
• - You shake the hand of someone of the opposite sex you've just met.
• - You have a fire exit in your house.
• - You see all four seasons in one day. first sun (oh blessed sun!), then rain, then snow, then hail. and sun, and rain, then...aaaah!
• - 'hello/hey, how are you?' is replaced by 'you alright?'
• - You think it's normal to sleep on a mattress which was considered old-fashioned crap in Europe 30 years ago.
• - You feel like being a nun when you wear trousers or skirt longer than your knees and tops to go out
• - You discover that a simple ticket of the train can vary from a price of 8£ to 30£.. for the same train, time and journey
• - You realize that you have never seen an English Restaurant
• - You realize that British people are queuing politely everywhere except at the bar counter
• - You are addressed as 'treacle, sugarplumb, darling, sweetheart, love, ....' (and all other versions of nicknames in that genre you normally only call your wife/lover) by the staff in supermarkets, pubs and restaurants.
• - You start celebrating Christmas Time right after Halloween.

Aanvullingen:
Je weet dat je in Engeland leeft als..

• - je een presentatie geeft in de pub en de professor tussendoor als pauze de studenten een hamburger met frieten trakteert
• - Wanneer je het normaal vindt dat je een kwartier te laat in de les komt en dan doodleuk zegt: 'sorry jongens, ik ben nog ff om een donut gelopen' en de leerkracht (die gewoon met de voornaam wordt aangesproken) daar helemaal geen problemen mee heeft
• - X-factor hét favoriete tv-programma is van alle mensen die je tegenkomt
• - De supermarkten open zijn tot middernacht
• - Plastic, glas, papier, karton,... gewoon allemaal in dezelfde vuilbak wordt gesmeten
• - Wanneer je rond vier uur naar buiten kijkt en het al helemaal donker is
• - ...

Het zal weer wennen zijn als we over twee weken terug in België zijn....