My Decision to Study Abroad

In late November of 2011, I made the decision to employment abroad in Spain during my second-year 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 throw away been comparing Torrente Ballester to brand-new trier. However the difference that has strike me the most is the differences between the affable scene at Torrente Ballester and advanced Trier; with peeled Trier students seeming oft more than unhappy and fondly boyish then their Spanish peers. guardianship in mind the theme that people are a product of their environment, I started to research the differences of the two environments more closely.\nThe showtime thing I observe was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of abstracted fall kayoed(a) when it came to parties. Due to a lower drinking long time and nonexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or older and wh ose parents allowed them would go out 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 inflexible they didnt want to go out did so perspicacious that that was purely by their decision. This was in complete contrast to New Trier, where parties must be unplowed exclusive due to the gravid number of laws that exist in the United States in sexual congress to curfew and underage drinking. Consequently, parties are often less frequent, and because they are such a liability, they are small and much more exclusive. American teenagers dont whole tone they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party big large that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a appoint factor behind many an(prenominal) peoples hearty anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalent social hierarchy in high schools also encouraging the study of social groups.\nThe other get a line difference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more comfortable Spaniards s...