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Culture shock hits hard if you're not aware of it.

Текст для будущих поколений кому впадлу смотреть, everyone I’m Hema and this past semester I studied abroad in Barcelona Spain and before September and my only experience with really living abroad was a three-week conversion to cultivators Spain that I did as part of the IDI immersion program when I went on this trip I was so excited I couldn’t wait to get to Spain to meet new people to have this experience I was overjoyed that I got the chance to go I got to fly there with my na family and a teachers and a friends and I was so comfortable and really just ready to dive in until a few days into our trip when we took a train from Madrid out to Pontiff Asia and we split into host families I left for any teachers my ending friends behind and I was alone I lived with a family for two beats that didn’t speak any English they lived on a farm I was pretty isolated it wasn’t a major city and that first night I got there I didn’t do anything but cry and I was so afraid of what I was going to getting myself into I felt completely isolated and totally alone as a days went by I got a bit more comfortable with the situation and one day I was lying with my host sister by the pool taking in some rays and the host father who came up to us with this cute little baby rabbit that lived on their farm and he put the baby rabbit on our chair and the rabbit jumped around and frolicked in the grass and we were all laughing and smiling and it was a good day later that night a family dinner father asked me in Spanish he said and how’d you like the rabbit and I said oh was kriti like I loved it and he said oh good we’ll have rabbit for dinner this weekend and I said I was shocked and you realized that he meant that he had asked me if I like to eat rabbit who aren’t you cook is cute little baby rabbit for me for dinner on their farm and so I stumbled through my Spanish and I realize I said oh but I love chicken and then we had chicken for dinner every night after that so needless to say I was pretty nervous when I embarked on my four-month trip to Barcelona in September I this time I didn’t have my any family behind me I knew nobody that I was going with I didn’t know the city I didn’t know where I was going to be living I got to Barcelona and I had to find my way to my dorm all by myself I got there I didn’t have towels they didn’t have sheets I with on no sleep I had to go and find these essentials before I could even really start to have my study abroad experience and in the first week of classes I was taking a Spanish class where I was really one of the only American students and on September th our professor gave us an aside yet he said write about the events of September th about the politics about what you experienced and you know what you think about it that’s not that I was like that’s kind of weird you know I’m in a Spanish class in Spain and I asked me to break about September like years later even still it didn’t hit me until I walked out the door of that classroom that he meant nothing to do with the turret terrorist attacks in New York and meant everything to do with the this Catalan independence state that was happening the next day in Spain and so I said okay and the next day my new classmates and I went out and we explored this celebration turns out that Catalunya is an autonomous province of Spain that has been fighting for its independence in and September th is the day that they celebrate this drive for independence and it was filled with the streets of Barcelona with these catalan flags and so my classmates that I walked around seeing this pride that these people had to be Catalonian and it was shocking and something that I never thought I would experience I didn’t even

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