Is a building built in the 19th century old?
For Americans yes, for Europeans probably no.
When an american friend of mine told me about the old house with the nice museum they have been to, we begun to talk about this question.
Since I love old cities I began to rave about Rome where I had been to last April. Finally she stoped by my room to see some of my Rome pictures. The shocking experience for me came, when a friend of her who had come with her didn't want to believe me, that the colosseum in Rome still is the Colosseum that was built almost 2000 years ago. For him it was impossible that a buliding could last 2000 years...

Today is the big election day. I'm very curious to see what it will be like today!
The last weeks you could see a lot of posters and signs everywhere promoting the candidates.
In contrast to Germany, where just the parties itself put up posters next to the streets, here people put up signs in their gardens. In Germany no one would like the randomly passing people to know what party he or she is voting for.
At my home university groups with political interests aren't supported at all. Even our amnesty international group didn't get accepted. Therefore I was surprised about seeing the ut democrats and the ut republicans promoting their party with many events and all over the campus.

Downtown Austin got crazy for Halloween.
While my friends in Munich tried to find a club that wouldn't turn off the music at midnight because of the christian 1st November holiday it was hard for us to get onto a bus to downtown, to make our way through the big dressed up crowd of people and to get into a club without having the security guy in the entrance to pay some extra money.
And a good Halloween costume doesn't have to be scary (that's what most Germans still think).