We were having dinner and I was sitting on the couch with my sister right next to me, and then my parents started acting weird and I was very confused. Then my dad asked me if I wanted to go next year to the United States. I immediately was unsure because I had never been very far from my house or from Spain, I was only 16 years old. The only good thing that I heard about it was that my sister went a few years ago, she made a lot of very good friends and learned English and had a lot fun. However, I was very confused because I was younger than my sister was when she went to the U.S., plus I just made friends in my new school and I really didn’t want to leave my friends and my family and I was unsure if I knew enough English to come here and
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I got really excited because I would like to swim with a team that was not in Spain. I started thinking about the opportunities of college in the United States. It all seemed like it could be very beneficial to my future and with all of the good things my sister was saying about it, it sounded like I would want to spend more than just one year there. Another factor that influenced me was my teachers in Spain, they always talked about how it was a it would be a great experience and it was a great way for me to get outside of my comfort zone and experience a lot more of what the world has to offer. After thinking about the decision for about a month, I weighed the pros and the cons and I decided to take a big step for my future and go to America for a …show more content…
I thought it was going to be a lot like High School Musical. After being here for a year, I saw that it was not like that at all where everyone is singing all the time, but it was similar to it at the same time because the lunch times and the high school setting was similar to it. This might sound silly to the average American, but what you don’t know is that high school in Spain is very different to high school in America. Schedules are different, people are different, grades are different, hours are different, it was like learning how to go to school all over
I got really excited because I would like to swim with a team that was not in Spain. I started thinking about the opportunities of college in the United States. It all seemed like it could be very beneficial to my future and with all of the good things my sister was saying about it, it sounded like I would want to spend more than just one year there. Another factor that influenced me was my teachers in Spain, they always talked about how it was a it would be a great experience and it was a great way for me to get outside of my comfort zone and experience a lot more of what the world has to offer. After thinking about the decision for about a month, I weighed the pros and the cons and I decided to take a big step for my future and go to America for a …show more content…
I thought it was going to be a lot like High School Musical. After being here for a year, I saw that it was not like that at all where everyone is singing all the time, but it was similar to it at the same time because the lunch times and the high school setting was similar to it. This might sound silly to the average American, but what you don’t know is that high school in Spain is very different to high school in America. Schedules are different, people are different, grades are different, hours are different, it was like learning how to go to school all over