20 Time Reflection

Being an exchange student during these past ten months I have learnt a lot of things, and lived a lot of different experiences, so I decided to do my 20 time about it. As soon as I got here I realized that the people had a wrong idea about what it is to be an exchange student, so this motivated me to show the reality of this experience.

There are a lot of differences in the people's life in Spain and here, so in my posts I have been comparing them. I also included other exchange students opinions. 
I really thought that writing posts will be easier for me, but at that moment is when I realized that I need to improve my English because as soon as I needed to write explanations, I needed to use the translator. Another failure that I found is that I thought that there will be more exchange students in this area but everyone of us has a different schedule so was hard to meet with them.
What I take out of this experience of 20 Time is that I should share more my personal experiences and opinions to my friends here so they will know better what it is being an exchange student and how is our lives. There are such activities as Homecoming or Prom that we don´t have in Spain, so letting the people know that I think that they realized that there are different ways to spend your High School years.
If I had the opportunity of do this project again I will open a YouTube channel telling experiences, so people could see me and give more comments. Nowadays the people don't really use blogs, they like more social medias.
The next thing that I want to do is continue posting in the blog and animate people from Spain, and around the world to want to participate, so we can show all the benefits that this experience can give you.
During this project I have been working hard, I did a survey where the graphs showed that one third of the students didn´t know what was being an exchange student; also by writing all the different experiences that I had in the posts, and comparing them to the ones in Spain, I made more people aware of the situation. After all these, I will say that maybe I could have used more time in this project so I think that I deserve a 90%. 

Real Opinions

There are a lot of exchange students around the world and reading about their feelings and situations makes me feel more comfortable because I'm also one of them. Most of them talked about the judgement that they had before coming, and how their opinions changed over the time they spent in America.
America is viewed as a fast food country, but this is only true in the big cities and when you have a full time job or short lunch time, but the reality is that there is a wide variety of food to choose from.

Another common situation that I found to be true was that public transportation is far more common in Europe, as when they get here is hard to move around without a car.






Is US more than a country? Before coming the people think that all the citizens and type of lives in US are the same but it's completely different depending of the States and the area.

Almost Back Home

During today's post I will write about a summary of all the good experiences that I had during the last 9 months in USA and also and actual situation check-in.

I'm living in California so of course the first trip I did was to San Francisco that is near from where I live, Saratoga. During this trip I still had jetlack, so I didn't really enjoy how I would have want the experience. During Christmas I went to San Diego and LA and I really enjoyed all of the different activities that I did, like ice skating, going to Disneyland or going shopping. The other trips I did where to places of the area. During all this whole experience I had been with two different families and both have been wonderful, so if I could I will repeat next year!

I will go back home in 6 weeks. I'm so excited to see again all my family and friends but there is also a sad part because I'm going to miss a lot all the friends that I have made here, now they are part of my "family" so it will be strange don't see them during next year. All the people had accepted me since I came, and sometimes they made my life easier.

Basically I'm going to feel strange as at the beginning, but this time because of leaving all this new community that I have met.