Zaphi
Reading/writing
July 19 (20), 2010
The first thing that changed my mind was the freeways. There were so many people using them. In Spain, you normally drive in one completely alone… but here is crazy!
I discovered no a long time a go that numerous people use freeways just to avoid the traffic lights. Now my mother is also avoiding them... that mean, more traffic.
However, the thing that has changed my point of view the most is being here in the UCR EXTENSION. You can figure out how Americans live seeing how they treat you in the streets, or what they do here for a living. However, in class, there is a lot of cultural exchange. You not only learn English, but also learn other daily lives that belong to other countries, such as Korean, Arabian, Chinese, Greek, Brazilian etc. lifestyles. It had made me more tolerant to people and their beliefs. I have hope they are also learning things from me, even if it is just the littlest and tiniest things.
If everyone could do these types of programs, where a lot of cultures are intertwined, we wouldn't mind our differences, and we will rejoice our similarities. Even if at the very end you didn’t learn English at all…
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