Water Bags

In Europe the drinking water is either in bottles or from the tap. Here there are bottles and the tap water as well (but only Africans drink from the tap since it is not safe for us foreigners to drink), but here they have something we don’t have ins Switzerland: water bags! A water bag is a square thick plastic bag that has half a liter of water in it!
So how do you drink it? You bite a small whole into the corner of the bag and then drink the water in the bag. It sounds really easy, but it actually really hard to bite a small whole into the bag with your teeth and not spill any water (we have spill water on ourself (and the floor) dozens of times!). The water bags are really cheap (about 3 rappen a piece) and you can find them everywhere! So you are you can always drink fresh (and usually cold) water where ever you are.
However, there is one major problem with the water bags: if your drop or rip them, you have water everywhere! We have accidentally dropped a water bag on the floor, where it then burst like a water balloon. So you have to be very careful not to drop or squash them! You also have to be careful not to spill your water bag once you have opened it (since you cannot close it) . But in a whole, water bags are a really cool and practical way to keep/drink water! Also they are really fun to drink from :-) . We will miss them when we come back to Switzerland!