My Decision to Study Abroad

In late November of 2011, I made the decision to nurture abroad in Spain during my second-year year of laid-back school. I was placed in Galicia in April that next year and on September 4, 2012, I boarded a flight to Madrid at JFK. Having since returned to Chicago in July 2013, I excite been comparing Torrente Ballester to late attempter. However the difference that has strike me the most is the differences between the favorable scene at Torrente Ballester and stark naked Trier; with naked as a jaybird Trier students seeming frequently more unhappy and sociablely green then their Spanish peers. holding in mind the caprice that people are a product of their environment, I started to look the differences of the two environments more closely.\nThe number 1 thing I discover was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of missing protrude when it came to parties. Due to a lower drinking old age and nonexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or older and whose parents allowed them would go protrude late. Everybody knew where the parties were there were two or three clubs / hang discover places that everyone liked to go to and anybody that dogged they didnt want to go out did so designed that that was purely by their decision. This was in complete contrast to New Trier, where parties must be unbroken exclusive due to the oversized number of laws that exist in the United States in proportion to curfew and underage drinking. Consequently, parties are more less frequent, and because they are such a liability, they are smaller and often more exclusive. American teenagers dont shade they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party big adequacy that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a pick up factor behind many peoples accessible anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalent social hierarchy in high schools also encouraging the cultivation of social groups.\nThe other come across di fference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more comfortable Spaniards s...