Spitting

Part of the everyday culture in Nepal is the practice of hawking and spitting. This occurs everywhere: out bus windows, out building windows (from any floor!), on the side of the road, and anywhere else you can imagine.
It's both adults and children, male and female, who do it. I've never been a fan of spitting, but I've grown accustomed to it. It's the hawking beforehand that I cringe away from. When I see/hear the younger kids doing it, it makes them much less cute.
At school the teachers, particularly the male ones, tend to spit off the walkway along the second floor, down into the courtyard where the children play. One time, a teacher came about an inch away from hitting of the kids in the face. The look of mortification on his face when he realized was priceless!
Of all the differences in culture between Canada and Nepal, the spitting has been on of, if not the, most difficult to adjust to. It's one of the very few things I won't miss!