Only in Portugal...

Here's a list, mostly I noticed these and wrote them but some other AFSers also contributed. 


The Ambulances only put on the flashing lights, not sirens and drive normally through traffic.


Are stop signs timelessly ignored(maybe it's because they're all in English? Nah, Portuguese just don't want to slow down)

Traffic lights don't really exist, only round-abouts where people fight to get enter and exit

There are over 1,000 ways to cook Bacalhau, and it's everywhere

Electrical plugs look like this

Buying 5 cases of non refrigerated milk at a time and storing it in the garage




You know the Pingo Doce commercial by heart

You park on the sidewalk, even asking the person standing there to please move away.


You think that you can catch a cold with a draft or by sitting in the spring sun. Cold drinks are also thought to bring on the dreadful "gripe". And don't let anyone have a shower after eating as something terrible could happen to them.


You think Brazilians speak incorrect Portuguese and will not read a book written in Brazilian Portuguese.


You think that 2am is too early to go to bed and that 11am is to early to get out of bed.


Your parents make you eat 3 servings of dinner at each sitting otherwise they think you don't like the cooking.


50% of all the girls you know are named Rita, Inês, Sara, or Maria


You know you've been here a while when you taste your salad and think "this needs more salt"




When your throat hurts and your host mom says its because you drank cold juice that morning


When it's forbidden to take a shower 3 hours or less after eating a meal


Ham and cheese sandwiches are a staple


Not to mention rice and orange soup

I can't really think of any more for now, but I think that's enough.