'My Decision to Study Abroad'

'In previous(a) November of 2011, I make the decision to learning abroad in Spain during my sophoto a greater extent course of instruction of high school. I was placed in Galicia in April that succeeding(prenominal) year and on September 4, 2012, I boarded a rush to Madrid at JFK. Having since returned to Chicago in July 2013, I mystify been comparing Torrente Ballester to invigorated attempter. However the going away that has struck me the just ab away is the variances between the well-disposed scene at Torrente Ballester and New trier; with New Trier students calculateing over oft to a greater extent disquieted and heartyly juvenile then their Spanish peers. Keeping in mind the cerebration that hoi polloi ar a harvesting of their environment, I started to look for the differences of the ii environments more closely.\nThe first affaire I find was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of lacking(p) out when it came to parties. receivable to a turn away drinking days and nonexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or honest-to-god and whose parents allowed them would go out late. Everybody knew where the parties were there were two or collar 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 rigorously by their decision. This was in complete severalise to New Trier, where parties must(prenominal) be unbroken exclusive due to the large look of laws that exist in the United States in relation to curfew and nonaged drinking. Consequently, parties are frequently less frequent, and because they are such a liability, they are smaller and much more exclusive. American teenagers siret tonicity they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party volumed enough that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a gravestone factor rear end many peoples fond anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalen t social hierarchy in high schools too encouraging the phylogenesis of social groups.\nThe other key difference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more comfy Spaniards s... '