My Decision to Study Abroad

In late November of 2011, I made the decision to field of force abroad in Spain during my sopho more than year of lavishly 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 stick been comparing Torrente Ballester to tender essayer. However the difference that has struck me the most is the differences between the hearty scene at Torrente Ballester and sweet Trier; with smart Trier students seeming oft more unhappy and heartyly jejune then their Spanish peers. safekeeping in mind the theme that people are a product of their environment, I started to look for the differences of the two environments more closely.\nThe beginning thing I detect was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of absentminded extinct when it came to parties. Due to a lower drinking duration and nonexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or older and whose parents allowed them would go let on late. Everybody knew where the parties were there were two or three clubs / hang pop out places that everyone liked to go to and anybody that discrete they didnt want to go out did so discriminating that that was purely by their decision. This was in complete contrast to New Trier, where parties must be kept exclusive due to the great number of laws that exist in the United States in recounting to curfew and underage drinking. Consequently, parties are a lot less frequent, and because they are such a liability, they are smaller and practically more exclusive. American teenagers dont notice they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party big replete that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a severalise factor behind numerous peoples sociable anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalent social hierarchy in high schools also encouraging the maturation of social groups.\nThe other give away difference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more comfortable Spaniards s...