Former students on life in Vilnius: we were advised not to smile randomly in the streets
The Orientation Week's inaugural conference was very striking for Aurora and Natalie. They both remember one piece of advice: do not smile randomly in the streets. Natalie sums it up: "A teacher told us that, when you smile at Lithuanians, sometimes they will think that you're crazy or that there is something funny about themâ¦"
Aurora almost found it scary at the beginning: she arrived in January, when there were few hours of light, the weather was cold, and no one was smiling in the streets, so she thought that people were sad.