Beginning of My Experience.

During this post I will talk about my life before coming to USA and "Why?" I came.

I'm from Valencia a city of Spain, I had never spent more than a month in a foreign country and less out of Europe so for me this was anew experience. The first month in USA was different but not hard for believe, I was feeling like in holidays. After the second month was when I really started assuming that I was going to spend the next 9 months the same way until the moment; before coming I used to live my own life without depending of my parents but when I came all change because at the beginning I didn't know all the streets and my grammar and vocabulary were horrible in case I felt lost. Other thing that changed at the beginning was the early schedule that the American people had, in Spain we started the school the second week of September. The beginning inside the school was weird because I didn't know anyone and during the first weeks I was alone at lunch time but a couple of weeks after started the school I met incredible people that helped me in all my necessities.
Now the "why" of coming was because my mom gave the opportunity of expand my languages and experiences, she work sending people to work abroad Spain and also studying, mainly in USA, Canada or England, so I chose USA. Since I was super little I wanted to came to California, it was my dreamed place, so this was the perfect time to realize how was the live of my city. My friend heard that I was coming so she decided to tell her parents to live the same experience and her parents said yes, so now my friend is in Iowa and we talk weekly and we tell each other the different interesting stories that happen to us daily.

Learning

During this weeks I was asking people about some of their customs and comparing them with mines. My topic was to talk about my exchange experience and my costumes to other people and see their reaction. All the people that during these weeks met me or met my exchange situation got shocked because some of them didn't really know that this was possible. I learned about myself that when you go to a foreign country the worst thing that you can do is live your life like in your home country. You need to accommodate yourself to the country people's life, you need to try different food also to experience quotidien situations of the daily life in the country. The firsts months that I was here I made this mistake, and if now I could go back I will try all the new things that I could. The next step in my blog is include people opinions about actual situations of the daily lives, also tell more things to the cultural exchange that I think I'm leaving. I will try to apply inside my community all the diversity of living with other people from differents cultures that until now I had learn.