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
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