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Published: February 4th 2006
So, another big difference I've noticed in Spain is the way people interact socially. In college in the US, it's very common to invite friends over. With me and my friends, we drink coffee/chai tea, sit around and talk, sometimes have a movie night. Just anything. We'll also randomly visit friends in their dorm rooms, etc. Definitely not here! You almost never have friends over to your house. The home is a very personal place and unless you're having a formal dinner, or something like that, you don't just have friends over. This is taken to the point, where, if a guy invites a girl up to his apartment, and she says yes, it's considered "consent." Wow! Luckily we learned this early on, so we knew to not invite friends over to the apartment, and to definitely not let ourselves get invited anywhere else. So, where do people go, you might be asking yourselves. As our Senora puts it, they are "people of the street." Teenagers and college age students will meet in a central location, and just stay out. They go to bars and go dancing, and just hang out . . . but on the streets! It's been something that's kinda hard to adjust to, sometimes we just want to have a movie night, and stay in, but we're learning. We did have one movie night (me and my roommates, and we went as far as to ask permission to have another female friend over), and we watched Madagascar in Spanish. That was fun, as it felt like a little piece of home. Tonight our social activity is gonna be going to a flamenco bar. It is kinda fun to be independent and just walk around the city with friends, but I miss chai and chatting.
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Brian Yates
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That's pretty insane, Megan. If it makes you feel any better, yesterday, I watched two movies with friends. I've got your American life covered over here. Ha, see ya!