Different Countries

In today's post I will talk about the differences between my country, Spain, and the one in where I'm staying right now, USA.
I'm going to talk about the food, school and distances differences.


Food: One of the most difficulties for me at the beginning of the experience was the fact that I was used to eat my homemade food, I never had really ate anything spicy but when I came here I started trying this types of food

School: In Spain the education is completely different because the way that we do the tests is with writings and answering the question and here all the tests are multiple choice so in some way is easier guess if you don't really know the answer, the other main difference is that in Spain you have less choices from choosing subjects, all the people learn the same math, languages and sciences and the only choices are the electives that are extra language or extra art.

Distances: I'm used to live in the city and near the city center so all the stores and supermarkets are less that 5 minutes walking from my home, the fact the here the distances are longer makes me feel that all this places are further than they really are.

The language of course was a difference between countries, but I will give more details in my next post.

Learning from others

During this past weeks I have been finding information about another exchange students that had the same experience as me in the USA.

All of them say the same about the fact that we are not used to be away from our families so at the beginning of the experience is easier to don't miss them because you have not spend enough time away and all is new so you don't really think in negatives things but when the moment of returning of your country is there, you really realize that you miss them and you are so excited to see them again. Another common fact between all of them is that we try new and different food from the one that we eat at our homes.

From all this information I have learnt that I'm really lucky and fortunate because I have a wonderful family who wanted me to extend my languages so they sent me here, here I also extended my friends that I will always remember. Another thing that I realize is that each person live their experiences differently so I found differences in the ways that all this people lived their experiences.



http://www.alliance-exchange.org/node/2555
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/imane-karroumi/the-exchange-experience-c_b_243895.html
https://www.internationalstudent.com/study-abroad/guide/exchange-student/