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I think that the hospitality is a lot different in Spain than it is in the United States and I was so overwhelmed with how nice everyone was and what they've given me.

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I think that the high school and the college here, like, we can't use the phone and eat in class and they can't do it, so it's so strange for me.

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Well, I think that life in the USA differs in very different ways from life in Spain.

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For instance, you go by car to almost everywhere.

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Yeah, here you walk a lot. I don't walk at all at home.

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We walk a lot here than we do at home because we can't get anywhere by walking.

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And also, your life is very busy. You have a lot of activities and homework to do.

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Yeah, it was busy here just because we wanted to do a bunch of stuff.

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When you text me, you just say you do study and stuff.

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Yeah, we're doing homework almost all the day.

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Life in Spain is different because everything's at different times.

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You guys will eat dinner at like 9, 30, 10 and we'll have dinner at like 5 because it's so much different.

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Everything is different in the USA. They do other kinds of sports. They have different timetables. It's so much different.

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In America, we spend more time with their families than we do with the natives.

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Life is the same. Here we don't spend a lot of time.

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We eat our meals. Both breakfast, lunch and dinner are different.

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One, because we eat lunch at school in America, whereas here they come home and eat it together.

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and a lot of the meals are eaten like all together as a family.

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Where at my house with our different schedules we eat more apart instead of more together.

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So that was really different.

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Back home in the United States it's definitely a lot more structured

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and we all set a plan of what we're going to do.

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And also we don't walk anywhere really.

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So here it's definitely the complete opposite of that.

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everywhere, you go with the flow. I think the time, the time is so different. Yes. Like the schedule.

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So 6 p.m. dinner in the United States, like a 10 or 11 p.m. lunch, like 11 or 12

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in the United States, here, three, four, two, three.

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Living in Alcorcon, they don't have sports at the school,

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so like they have shorter days,

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like we get to leave school earlier, I mean later, sorry.

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And also they eat dinner and like meals

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at later times than we do in Pembroke.

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My opinion, it was harder for Joey,

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Because he doesn't know anything and also because he doesn't know as much Spanish as I do English

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So it's harder for him to understand what we are saying

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Yeah, I think it was harder for me because he likes to eat everything in the US and he's really good at English

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And I'm really bad at Spanish, so it was harder for me

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I think it was harder for Sara because when I was in the USA, I could speak more English

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and I could communicate with your family and as you speak a little bit Spanish, it's harder

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for you to communicate with my family and those.

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And I also feel that it was harder for me coming here than when Rosalia came to my house

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because she has traveled to the United States before and has tried a lot of American food

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and I feel like they have a lot of the same foods here whereas for me when I came here

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every day I had new foods that I'd never tried before and so that was a lot harder for me not

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being able to communicate with their parents and then explain to me what they were making

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and never trying them before. I think that it was more or less the same because we have to adapt to

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a different culture and there are some differences but i think it was hard well it was like the same

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level yeah i agree because we both had to like adjust to each other's lives and neither of us

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really knew what to do when we got to each country because you had to adjust to my really busy

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schedule and i have to adjust it to the language barrier and all that stuff

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i'm also the food in agri-times table center yes

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i think that he found it harder because his language like his spanish is not the

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same level as i am in english but he did really well and he

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handled it really well with all the people here and my family too

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so he did really well i agree with what alex said

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about the language barrier i think it was harder

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for me here because I got sick the first two days and was throwing up and I miss my family

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a lot that I hadn't had before.

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I think it was harder for Ella too because I didn't miss my family as much as she did.

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I would say that the best part of this whole exchange was meeting Pi after three years

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first time in Pembroke because we've been friends since freshman year and we've been talking since

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then like she knows everything about me and me and her for the first time it was like really special

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yeah it was like super exciting how having time with with her because we were talking each to

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each other like for a long time and then meeting in person it was really good um i just liked that

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they could drive with the same age as I have and they could do much more things than we could

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because of driving. And I liked the fact that since they lived in a city setting everything

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was closer that they were able to walk everywhere and take public transportation because we don't

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really have that option at home. The best part about the exchange for me has been spending time

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with Rosalia's family and having meals with them because it's just really interesting for me seeing

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the types of foods that they eat every day and talking or trying to talk with

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her parents and I like it when her dad tries to speak English with me because

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then I have to try and speak Spanish with him and so at meals we kind of make a

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deal that he would try to speak in English with me if I would try and speak

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in Spanish with him. I love going with you to the high school because there are like a lot of

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difference between your high school and my high school so i love being there and i also

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like when i was with your family because i feel really comfortable with them and i really like

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them i think just walking around like meeting his friends and like seeing what he does on a

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daily basis it's the best part yeah for me it's the same just getting to meet everyone from the

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the US and getting to be going was the best part the best part I think it was

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meeting her and staying 24 hours with her I'm just seeing a different culture

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going out every night and just going home doing things a lot of people had

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never known before I think you know it's always new people from other culture they

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do something different for you yeah and like meeting all the new people that

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like you don't know before like not even Justin's been but like also the people

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in Pembroke the biggest impression was Adrian's family I loved just like

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talking with them and their culture just mixing with mine

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I kind of liked that everything was like a spread because dad was like really calm

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everything was really calm like here everything's so it's always so busy and

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noisy. I'd say that Spanish families and American families have a common is that

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they're both very hospitable they were very welcoming and we felt at home yeah

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that's the same thing I feel like home Stacy was like a mom for me when I was

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We actually think that the families are very similar, yeah.

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You can still have fun with your friends in both places, I think. Just different activities,

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but you're always with people like you are in Pembroke and you.

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In weekends, we take the breakfast together. Yeah, breakfast is big on the weekends.

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We think that, personally, the welcoming of the people and also the love both families have from the extreme foreigners and everything.

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Both our families, they always joke around.

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Both of them.

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Yeah, also the jokes.

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Yeah.

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Our families have many things in common.

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Probably the family life, like all talking to each other and eating together. I know my family and Lucia's family both does that.

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I thought the food was going to be spicy, and then what I didn't expect, there were so many dogs, it was so cute, there were so many of them just like walking on the street, it was so cute.

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So in my case, I really thought people walk there, but nobody walks, everybody uses their car, here people walk alone.

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there's a lot you need a lot more and a lot more quantities and I I don't know

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but I I like the American food too when coming to Spain I expected to try new

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foods and like just experiencing things because I thought that everything would

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be very different and also I thought that the school like going to school with them would be

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very different than high school at Pembroke and it was and I didn't expect all of the like public

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transport and walking that we did because in Pembroke we don't take buses or trains or walk

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anywhere so it was very different i expected to make new friends and to go everywhere by car

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because we here we go to school and go shopping by bus or walking and i didn't expect

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to open up with Hannah and her family because it's a other language.

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This is something that like not a lot of people get to do and now it makes me

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realize that I definitely want to travel a lot more. Tortilla de patata, macaroni

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tea. Hamon. S'mores. My favorite meal was croquetas. They were really good. And mine

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was mac and cheese, which is really good. Marzipan. I don't like fish. My favorite meal is paella.

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My favorite meal was mac and cheese.

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The break time. I like it like an hour of break, get to leave. Half an hour, half an hour.

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A break, get to leave, go wherever you want. For me, the musketeer, of course. I like that.

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Learning a second language when you're younger is definitely something I'd be interested in.

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that they have more free time around.

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The canteen is fantastic.

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A lot more food than what we can buy at our school and drinks.

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I think the dimension because our high school is very small

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And the high school of Pembroke is enormous.

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One thing I would bring to my school would be the breaks that their school has.

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What I bring to my school is that they can eat in class.

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We plan on keeping in touch.

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Maybe you were planning on him coming to the US over the summer and going up to Maine.

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I'm willing to go to the USA because I need to go again.

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I need to meet all his family again and I'm willing to go to Maine with him.

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Yeah, I know so.

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I'd like to go over the summer to Boston, but I don't know, I don't know.

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Fun and busy, but really awesome.

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Amazing, awesome.

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Divertido

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Unforgettable and incredible

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Life-changing and amazing

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Unforgettable and wonderful

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Amazing and fun

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Eye-opening and fun

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Unforgettable and enjoyable

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I would just say amazing and entertaining

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Memorable and exciting.

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Life-changing.

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I'm going to be great.

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Math and Model.

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Math and Model.

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For me, exciting.

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Travigant.

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Wonderful.

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Life-changing.

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Cultural impact.

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Just like an amazing life experience that I'll never forget.

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Unforgettable.

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Exciting and eye-opening.

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I come for a little.

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Dynamite.

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Re-humanizing.

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Unforgettable.

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Inosvigable.

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Mola Maco.