旅行的意義

   Last year, I took the exchange program to Chamlers in Sweden and stayed in Europe around one year. Although many universities in the U.S. may outperform than the ones in Europe in my study field, I still decided to apply the exchange program to Europe because the European culture is much attractive to me.

  In Europe, there are so many countries with different culture, history, and languages. People from different countries have their own distinguishing characteristics and this is always an interesting topic whenever I talk with them. They really made different impressions on me, for example, Swedish are actually very shy and not easy to be closed friends, French don’t like long working hours and usually have much leisure time, Italian guys like to wink at beauties and sing to them, Spanish start their dinner after 8pm and have parties all week and can’t live without alcohol, German work very hard during the day and drink beer “very hard” during the night as well…haha

   Besides, since these countries are just adjacent to each other, it‘s really very easy to travel around in Europe, ex: taking one hour flight or train from France to Germany. So, I think the culture diversity in Europe may be one thing that I would never experience if I was in the U.S..

   It's very common to get culture shock when firstly arriving a new country, so somemes I feel uneasy. However, everything will be fine once getting with it, so it's not necessary to be too anxious when making changes, just do it! My experience about life in Europe really makes me get a more wide view of the world which is still quite different from the knowledge I knew from books, news, or other people' stories. So, I would like to say that if you get the chance to go abroad one day, don't miss the chance and make it be regretful to you, just go for it. : )