Trip to Poland

During my trip to Poland, I experienced culture shock a few times. Ive been to Poland three times but only remember my last trip vividly. As I got off the airplane, I went to get something to eat and choose a hot dog. As the server handed me the hot dog, I was very confused why the bun was so thick and the hot dog was more like a sausage. It was a lot tougher to eat than an American hot dog but it sure was tasty. My grandmother told me that I should of put more toppings on it; I found out that people usually put a salad co slaw type topping on it. So after my 3 hours car ride from the airport to my home,I really wanted just to take a shower and go to bed. When I asked my aunt if I could take a shower she said " yea let me just heat up the water for you". WHAT?! my reaction was, she told me that only twice a week they take real showers and the rest of the time they just warm a pot of water up and you have to basically give yourself a sponge bath. I was very shocked when she told me but I had no other choice. Not everyone in Poland does this, just my family dose not have to much money so they try to save as much as they can, like only turning on the boiler twice a week. Now the last shocking experience I had was with dinner. Of course I love polish food but after I saw my uncle slaughter a pig,( I live on a animal farm in Poland) cut it open, take all the organs out and what not, I did not really want to eat dinner that night. My family there kills one of their own pigs once every two or three months so they don't have to buy meat from the store. Again another way to save money. I stayed away from pig meat for a few days until the headless pig finally go out of my mind. Living a diffrent lifestyle for a few weeks, I relized that people live way diffrent lifestyles than in America.