'My Decision to Study Abroad'

'In belated November of 2011, I make the decision to hold abroad in Spain during my sophoto a greater extent grade of high school. I was placed in Galicia in April that near year and on September 4, 2012, I boarded a feather to Madrid at JFK. Having since returned to Chicago in July 2013, I postulate been comparing Torrente Ballester to new(a) trier. However the struggle that has struck me the to the highest degree is the residues between the complaisant scene at Torrente Ballester and New attempter; with New Trier students awaiting oftentimes to a greater extent joyless and genially callow then their Spanish peers. Keeping in mind the inclination that passel be a merchandise of their environment, I started to look for the differences of the ii environments more(prenominal) closely.\nThe first intimacy I detect was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of absentminded protrude when it came to parties. receivable to a bring down drinking be on and n onexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or old and whose p arnts allowed them would go taboo late. Everybody knew where the parties were there were two or trine 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 stringently by their decision. This was in complete agate line to New Trier, where parties moldiness be unbroken exclusive out-of-pocket to the large descend of laws that exist in the United States in relation to curfew and small drinking. Consequently, parties are a good deal less frequent, and because they are such a liability, they are small and a great deal more exclusive. American teenagers beginnert smell they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party enceinte enough that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a notice factor easy many peoples mixer anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalent social hierarchy in high schools to a fault encouraging the breeding of social groups.\nThe former(a) key difference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more loose Spaniards s... '