El choque del dia

I decided to publish these posts occasionally, when I will have several small surprises, which I would like to share with you. I see the meaning of culture shock in two ways

1. as small things which work totally differently in other country and are obviously surprising you, but you just accept it, because these are just minor differences and
2. strange feeling, that something is going in wrong way, but you cannot define, what it is and you are confused.

In these posts I will be talking about the first option. So here we go with first "choques del dia", as trainees usually call these situations here:

• Security guards - Of course they have private guards also here, in banks, shops, supermarkets... But when I saw a first security guard in Costa Rica having SHOTGUN on his shoulder, I told myself, that our guards, which probably even don't have bullets in their guns, look quite funny in comparison with these ones.
• Weather - currently it is raining season, which means that it is raining every day. But... There is big difference between raining all day and raining every day. The weather is soo regular here - you wake up, it is beautiful sunny morning, at noon the sky is getting darker, it is covered by clouds, in the afternoon it starts raining, it is raining till evening, you wake up the next day and it is beautiful morning...
• Army shop - As I mentioned, I was surprised by the presence of the shotguns at streets - well, you can get used to it. But then I went to mall (the biggest mall in San Jose) and when walking, I was watching the shops - everything seemed as in Central Europe - sport shop, some brand boutique, shoe store, another boutique, army shop ... I was standing in front of the shop full of rifles, shotguns, pistols. I know, that we have also arms in Slovakia, but I have never seen an army shop. And here it is placed between Hugo Boss and Adidas shop...

These are first suprises, which you can experience in the Central America, stay tuned for next post...