If you could pause real life and spend some
time living with a family anywhere in the world, where would you go?
If I could
really PAUSE real life and not worry about my family, job, etc…, I would go
back to Spain and live with the 3 families I lived with during my summer abroad
in college. I would love to see how my perspective on things has changed since
those days and to remember what it was like to immerse myself in another
culture and language so completely. I
wonder if my Spanish would come back to me easily or if it would be more
challenging in my more adult years. I
wonder if I would still enjoy going to bull fights as I did then, and if the
foods I liked/disliked would be the same ones or different this time. I can imagine I would connect more at this
time in my life with the parents than the children of the families I lived
with, and I can with certainty tell you that I would not be enjoying the night
life in the same way…I would probably be in bed a lot earlier, and playing
tourist a bit more during the day. At
any rate, I think the overall experience would be worth a repeat, and hopefully
I would appreciate the opportunity to take part in such an adventure even more
than I did the first time as I am, I think, just a little bit older and wiser
today than I was then. J
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