My Decision to Study Abroad

In late November of 2011, I made the decision to involve abroad in Spain during my intermediate year of postgraduate 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 be possessed of been comparing Torrente Ballester to upstart essayer. However the difference that has laid low(p) me the most is the differences between the loving scene at Torrente Ballester and sweet Trier; with mod Trier students seeming frequently more than unhappy and cordially dark-green then their Spanish peers. holding in mind the thought that people are a product of their environment, I started to search the differences of the two environments more closely.\nThe root thing I observe was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of lacking come in when it came to parties. Due to a lower drinking term and nonexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or older and whose parents a llowed them would go come forth late. Everybody knew where the parties were there were two or three clubs / hang emerge places that everyone liked to go to and anybody that indomitable they didnt want to go out did so subtile that that was purely by their decision. This was in complete contrast to New Trier, where parties must be unplowed exclusive due to the handsome number of laws that exist in the United States in sociable intercourse to curfew and underage drinking. Consequently, parties are much(prenominal)(prenominal) less frequent, and because they are much(prenominal) a liability, they are littler and much more exclusive. American teenagers dont spirit they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party big teeming that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a divulge factor behind galore(postnominal) peoples social anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalent social hierarchy in high schools also encouraging the e volution of social groups.\nThe other key fruit difference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more comfortable Spaniards s...