"The great experience of spending a year abroad"

               

                           

  The great experience of spending a year abroad

      By way of introduction, spending a year abroad while you are studying has become more and more popular nowadays. It is true that all the subjects which we are studying at University are important but, what about the skills that you improve once you travel abroad? Studying abroad for a year means learn a foreign language and finally can speak it perfectly, and also learn things from a different culture, which makes you become an open-minded person. Spending a year abroad is a experience that everyone should live at least once in their lives.

      Firstly, you become an open-minded person because when you are living in a different country from the one where you were born in, you live as people from that country do, being part of a lot of different activities which are typical from there. For example, you usually eat at the time that people from there do, which could be different from the time in which you do it in your country. At the same time, you also try new food, food that you have never expected to try some day. Also, you meet people who do things that you have never imagined to do and they share their experiences with you, which is a really good way to learn. Then you are learning a lot of things about that new culture.

       In addition, one of the most important things when you spend a year abroad is that you learn a language and when you come back to your country, you can speak it perfectly. That is true because when you are abroad, all around you is in that language, so you are listening to it all the time. For example, if you need to buy something, you have to talk with the salesman or saleswoman in that language. Besides, if you need to get to somewhere and you do not know how to do it, you also need to ask someone and talk with her or him in that language. Moreover, once you are abroad, you would meet new people and would make new friends, whom with you will talk in that language so you will be practising all the time. Being abroad for some time is the best way to improve your language skills.

       Added to this, once you spend a year abroad while you are studying, most of the times you have to travel abroad alone, and finally, you learn how to do it by yourself. Once you are in that foreign country, you have to do all the things alone and, to my mind, learning how to live in an unknown place is a really good way to grow up as a person.
      

      To sum up, when you live for some time abroad, you learn things which you have not imagined to learn before, you do things which you have not ever expected to do, you meet people really different from who you are, and, finally, when you come back home, you see life in a different way. Finally, spending a year abroad while you are studying is something that marks a before and after in everybody's lives.