I think for me a bit of a strike was the very unusual greeting ‘hoi’ which is being very commonly used by everyone, even not your friends all around Liechtenstein. When I first heard it, I was a bit confused because I heard something like ‘Ahoy’ which was very tightly tied in my mind with pirates and not as a greeting, but as a battle cry before boarding someone's other ship. By coincidence my roommate is from the Czech Republic, and they also use it, so I was wondering why it is that way even though neither Liechtenstein nor the Czech Republic have oceans by their sides. So it was interesting to explore the origin of this. As I understood later it is pretty commonly used as an informal greeting in Czech and Slovak and also in Dutch and Swiss German, but its origin is not very clear, or maybe I didn't find the exact information about it. It's still a bit of a mystery for me, but I just took it as a matter of fact and use it in everyday life. Maybe I can say it is some kind of respect to traditions, and we started to use it even among other students from other countries. It is simply more interesting and fun to say ‘hoi’ than using ‘hello’ or ‘hi’. I think it's one of the signs of interest in the culture of locals, and they feel more comfortable when we pay respect and behave the way they got used to, rather than exploring our culture. We can say that we are right now as guests, and we should be aware of the traditions of someone's house, and it's also easier for us to learn their culture, than they will explore all our cultures. Also, an interesting point, if we look from the perspective of language, there are sometimes words that any teacher won't tell you about because he never lived there, but it can be a very common word among locals, which they use every day. I know a lot of such examples in Ukrainian, especially in my dialect that we use in Lviv, because due to the history of our town, when we were part of other countries, we in Lviv use words that can be sometimes from German and Polish and people from other regions can't understand everything when we speak among each other. Talking about language, for me, it's very hard to understand when locals are speaking Swiss German, because it differs from German that I learned, sometimes I have the feeling that people in here speak French or Italian or maybe even Dutch, maybe if I knew one of those languages I would be able to answer this question but still I think it differs. Probably people use some words which are similar to words in other languages during knowledge exchange as bordering countries, for example ‘ciao’, which are ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ in Italian but only ‘bye’ in Swiss German. You never know how countries could influence each other during the history of their relationships. More importantly, we need to take the history of the exact place and not take the whole country as an example and use it around all its area. Something which is used in the east border can differ a lot from what is accepted in the opposite direction. Anyway, I think that I need to continue exploring this country and I need to deepen my knowledge in order to avoid inaccurate information that I can forward to someone abroad and create the wrong impression about the whole country.