• “Cloudy Lemonade” means lemon-flavored soda. It’s a shock at first, trust me.
  • Screens on windows do not come standard
  • Bees like kitchens
  • Irish people swear too, but it sounds more educated
  • You stand out when wearing a ski jacket in Ireland in September
  • Two pocket folders don’t exist
  • Spiders are much bigger in Ireland
  • The best way to avoid paying for textbooks is to take a picture of every single stinking page…
  • The Irish like their techno music
  • The University of Limerick is home to many homeless dogs and cats
  • American politics always makes its way to the front page of the Irish Times
  • Students who don’t pay for their education have excessive money to waste on alcohol, pizza, etc.
  • 23 is old…especially when your housemates are only 17
  • Bolognese sauce is not the same as spaghetti sauce
  • Finding food we like at the grocery store is always an adventure
  • Microwaves are a luxury in Ireland
  • People in France do not speak English
  • Everyone in Europe smokes
  • The Eiffel Tower sparkles every night from XX:00 to XX:10
  • The Irish do not pronounce “th” in words – Katherine is “Kat-treen”, three is “tree”
  • A “fancy dress” party means a costume party
  • The introduction of (maximum) fees would be a good thing
  • Parisians wear a lot of black
  • Germans like mohawks just like the Irish
  • Germanic languages are very different from Romance languages
  • The Michael-Jackson-baby-dangling hotel is right next to the Brandenburg Gate
  • Lots of people in Germany speak English
  • Cleaning other people’s dishes gets old after awhile
  • Don’t trust Wikipedia’s ‘average temperature’ graphs.  It’s a lot colder in Limerick than we expected.