'My Decision to Study Abroad'

'In advanced November of 2011, I do the decision to think over abroad in Spain during my sophoto a greater extent family of high school. I was placed in Galicia in April that abutting year and on September 4, 2012, I boarded a escape valve to Madrid at JFK. Having since returned to Chicago in July 2013, I urinate been comparing Torrente Ballester to new-sprung(prenominal) trier. However the argument that has struck me the closely is the fights between the cordial scene at Torrente Ballester and New trier; with New Trier students calculateing frequently to a greater extent uncheerful and affectionately puerile then their Spanish peers. Keeping in mind the head that tidy sum be a harvest-feast of their environment, I started to search the differences of the dickens environments more closely.\nThe first amour I notice was that Spaniards did not seem to have a fear of deficient come on when it came to parties. imputable to a overturn drinking period and n onexistent curfew, anybody that looked 14 or aged(a) and whose p arents allowed them would go out(a) late. Everybody knew where the parties were in that respect were two or iii 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 purely by their decision. This was in complete contrast to New Trier, where parties must be unbroken exclusive repayable to the large number of laws that exist in the United States in relation to curfew and small-scale drinking. Consequently, parties are a good deal less frequent, and because they are such a liability, they are small and lots more exclusive. American teenagers tire outt life they can go out whenever they would like, and there is seldom a party queen-sized enough that allows everyone to in that wants to come. This is a separate factor tail many peoples mixer anxiety, and it simultaneously creates a much more prevalent social hierarchy in high schools likewise encouraging the organic evolution of social groups.\nThe some other key difference between Americans and Spaniards was how much more soothing Spaniards s... '