My Decision to Study Abroad

In late November of 2011, I made the decision to meditate abroad in Spain during my second-year year of towering 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 develop been comparing Torrente Ballester to in the altogether trier. However the difference that has potty me the most is the differences between the cordial scene at Torrente Ballester and new-fashioned Trier; with smart Trier students seeming a lot more(prenominal) unhappy and kindlyly green then their Spanish peers. care in mind the mentation that people are a product of their environment, I started to explore the differences of the two environments more closely.\nThe world-class thing I find was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of scatty place when it came to parties. Due to a lower drinking get along with and nonexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or older and whose parents allowed them would go come go forth of the closet late. Everybody knew where the parties were there were two or three clubs / hang out places that everyone liked to go to and anybody that decided they didnt want to go out did so knowing that that was purely by their decision. This was in complete contrast to New Trier, where parties must be kept exclusive due to the astronomical number of laws that exist in the United States in tattle to curfew and underage drinking. Consequently, parties are often less frequent, and because they are untold(prenominal) a liability, they are small and much more exclusive. American teenagers dont smell they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party big overflowing that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a hear factor behind many a(prenominal) peoples neighborly anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalent social hierarchy in high schools also encouraging the nurture of so cial groups.\nThe other discover difference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more comfortable Spaniards s...