cultural shock

I have been living in Chile since I was born and this is my first experience living abroad. Actually, I have been to United States once, but It was just for vacation, so I didn´t have enough time to realize what the differeces were between USA and Chile.
In these 3 months in Toronto I can notice some differences between both countries, especifically in people's behaviour. For example in Chile, people always try to avoid paying fees on the bus or subway. People try to get in on the bus by the back door or pushing people. In Toronto, it is totally different. They always pay, it doesn´t matter if something happens. For example, one day when I was going to my language school, one booth which we use to pay the fee, was not working so if we used it, we could get in without paying. To my surprise, people were using it! but they were leaving money on the booth. In Chile we would need a guard who watches the place because everyone would use but without leaving money.

Another big difference is recycling. In my country we don´t care about it. We use the same basket for all kinds of garbage (in england, we say rubbish! ;) )but here they use three different baskets In my first month, everytime that I needed to throw something out, I had to think about which baskets were for my garbages, and sometimes it was difficult... but now, I have been living here since July, so I am almost an expert.

overall a great job, and very interesting :)