One of the things I saw first in Lisbon were the trees. I don’t know a big German city with so many trees. But I think it is really good, because they are good for the environment, spend shade and create jobs.
There are also everywhere TVs, in Restaurants, bars and so on. In Germany we don’t watch TV while eating, but in Portugal it is common. We also have TVs in bars, but not in Restaurants.
Smoking is also practiced by many people, even at the breaks in school pupils go out to smoke. For example, at my school in Germany we are not allowed to smoke on the school area (and also are not allowed to leave the area), so the pupils can’t not smoke at school.
Mobile phones are also everywhere, every time someone is texting or phoning. The phone is sometimes also on the text while having dinner, in Germany people would interpret that like ‘You are not important for me’ and that is really impolite.
Having the laundry hanging next the street to get dry is nearly impossible to see in Germany. People would hang the laundry in the garden or in the houses so no one can see it, because want especially their underwear not to be seen.
Portuguese are also more late, I will quote my host brother to show that: “She was punctual and now she has to live with the consequences, you can’t be punctual in Portugal’, the consequence was waiting. Germans are known for being punctual so that is really a difference.
In my German family we are eating one time a warm meal and at the afternoon cld, means bread with butter, cheese, ham, other sausages, salad and so on. Here I am eating two times warm and I have also to say that the Portuguese food is really good. When we have dinner we usually eat soap, something warm and fruits, but in Germany we do not eat soap before the main meal, just in higher restaurants, that is in common.
The Portuguese bars, I was in, are also louder, people are shouting, singing, and clapping. I don’t know so much noise from bars I usually went to in Germany, they are more like restaurants.
The last thing I want to talk about, is the election of the representatives of students. Here it is celebrated like a big party at my German school it is more conservative. Two Students go to a room, get informed about the candidates and their plans, go back t the class and inform them. Then every class votes for one and the two volunteers go back to the room and vote.
I could talk about more, just like the school system, language, cumprimentos, etc., but I think I talked enough to make clear that Portugal and Germany are different in some points.
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