- Americans don't know any concept of true history until they've traveled abroad. You just can't comprehend all that history entails until you are standing in a building that has been around for over 1000 years.
- When a kind waiter realizes that you are struggling with your German and asks another kind waiter who actually speaks English to come over and that kind, English-speaking waiter asks you *in English* if he can help with anything, don't reply with "no thank you" in German. It's just rude. (In my defense, I was so caught up in trying desperately to keep up with the German that it didn't occur to me that he was actually speaking English. I felt like such a dumb American!)
- Teenagers are the same in Europe as they are in America.
- Smoking really doesn't make you look cool, regardless of which country you are in.
- Americans are not the only dumb tourists out there.
- People put gum under the pews in Europe, too.
- Don't assume that you are putting money into a change machine if you can't understand what the sign says, you could lose your money very easily.
- If you open your mind, your eyes, and your ears, you can write your own history book by discovering history that they don't teach in school.
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