Tips to Exchange Students Coming to Latvia

Latvia is a small country in Northern Europe with a very beautiful nature. If you are preparing to visit that country you need to know some things about Latvian culture, for example, meeting and greeting, gift giving etiquette.
Latvians are polite and courteous. They can be extremely reserved. They do not readily smile, especially at strangers, and are not comfortable making small talk. Latvians are not especially emotive speakers.
In Latvia people shake hands when they meet other people for the first time, but not every time they see them after that. …