You are awoken at all hours of the night and morning by chickens that don’t just cluck, but scream. I have never been around chickens enough to know just how noisy they are. I am learning that they make sounds that I’ve never thought a chicken was capable of.
You have to adjust to the sound of fighting dogs every night.
You hear at least two or three of the five daily prayer calls.
Politicians up for election walk around in the street after political demonstrations with little semblance of an entourage (this is how I completely unintentionally saw Edi Rama in the street. Yes, he is huge in real life).
If you buy something that totals 168 Lek and the store keeper doesn’t have the exact change to give you, they will give you a piece of gum or something small in an effort to make things even. This happens either because there aren’t 1Lek pieces or there just aren’t enough in circulation. The smallest piece I’ve seen is 5Lek, and most of them come from western-style grocery stores.
You can buy a kilo of tomatoes and a kilo of onions for $1.00.
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