Thank you, Becca. You know, sometimes it's not easy. We're not America; we've never been used to receiving people from outside.

The clash of cultures is natural, especially when I meet Americans who don't even want to put their children in our schools, saying how bad they are and even preferring to educate them themselves.

I find this unusual .They only see school as a place for technical learning, not social learning. What will become of children isolated from the world in which they live? It's all bizarre.

Of course, everyone does what they want, and that shouldn't bother me since the children aren't even mine. But I dislike their disdain, their implying how dumb we are, how wrong everything is, how bad we eat - I'm sorry, but coming from an American, it's all quite laughable at times.

One of these days I had a student of mine who, in his arrogance, said that "bureaucracy is typical of poor countries", equating Portugal with a third-world country. Is there any need to say these things to a Portuguese person? zero sensitivity.