EXPANDING HORIZONS

 

Traveling to another country was a pleasant experience for me in the beginning of the year. Even though I could give you 10000 reason's to visit Puerto Rico I'll just give you the best ones. First, Puerto Rico is a beautiful Island with such amazing beaches that is hard to describe. However PR is an unincorporated territory of the United States it looks totally different around here. This country is located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico’s climate is a warm tropical, which sometimes has rain, but most of the time it’s just sunny all year around. Second the food is excellent. Every Puerto Rican dishes are carefully well prepared, they taste delicious and there are many different kinds of food like meat, rice, and beans. Moreover, it’s very similar to my native food.

Mofongo is made of fried green plantains mashed with garlic and churrasco (grilled meat) served with a buttery-garlic in this typical gourd. It looks very simple but this is my favorite Porto Rican dish Yummy!!!

Piña Colada is a sweet and tasty cocktail made with cream of coconut, and pineapple juice. It can be blended, frozen, or mixed with ice. Depending on your preference it may contain alcohol or not . The Piña Colada has been the official drink of Puerto Rico since 1978

Other good point over there is that the vibe is very positive. It’s normal to see young and elderly people laughing and talking while they are walking in the Old San Juan streets. Even when the stranger talks to them they reply gently, and if it interesting a friendship can happen.

      SAN JUAN STREET

 

        

EL MORRO

Once visiting San Juan the first visitors can't loose the opportunity to visit the most famous part of the Puerto Rico history El Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, known as "El Morro".

Everything in Puerto Rico made me feel in my homeland. Visiting this awesome place was definitely the best thing that happened to me in this year. We are still in May and I’m still positive that the best is still to come yet.

                                   

GREAT EXPERIENCE                          

America! You’ve seen it on TV, in the movies, you think you know the USA but you really don’t until you live there. I’ve seen a few of these articles floating about it but usually written from an American point of view, for example an American might move to a small European country and write about it, or perhaps an American might even visit Brazil and write about the strange accents and the wildlife. That kind of makes sense, because after all the USA is a very populous and very vocal country. But I thought it might be interesting to write about what it’s like living in American society in the foreign perspective. Here are the things that surprised the foreign by living in the USA.

Matt Edwards from Australia had the first impression about the politeness of the American people very suspect when a waitress treated him very well calling him ‘darling’. After walk around in places that people not receive tips for the good treatment he figured out that Americans are one million of times more kind compared to his folks. “In Australia, or at least in Sydney, a stranger that talks to people randomly is safely (and sadly) assumed to be insane, or annoying. In America everyone talks to you. It’s the norm. I love that” said Matt.

Alex Gallichotte (he doesn’t tell in his blog where he is from) who grew up to diplomatic parents and lived in six different countries, believes that American people tend to be more honest about addmiting their weaknesses, “In fact, this is probably the only country I’ve been in where self-criticism is seen as a necessary rite of humility, and as a means of finding a true balanced opinion. Not many nations are willing or capable of admitting their flaws.”

To the Director of the Museum of Family History Steven Lasky the experience of the Jewish immigrants in the US is not what they imagined from their native land. He tells that many can soon find out that the streets were not really paved with gold the way they thought before. “They would discover that if they were to succeed in the ‘golden land’ and create a better life for themselves and their family, they would have to work very hard.”

If you are considering coming over here and having the experience of living in America you should first search out the viewpoint from different nations about what it’s really like to live here. After all the difficulties that I’d faced in America I can say that is a privilege to live in a free country where you can have your own beliefs,  have the right of free expression, and be free to go back and forth. As you can see this is a free country and it's worth the effort to be here... God bless America!

Challenge & Shock

Live in America is hard, but not impossible for those who come from other countries. American it’s an amazing country which the culture has been enriched by the values and belief systems of virtually every part of the world. As an international student I have the perspective that diversity is very valuable. If you choose to live in a completely different environment, you may be challenged with new situations every day, and you may face culture shock.  To minimize the shock is good to remember to choose a city that resembles your home country in some ways. You may find comfort in those similarities.

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This song is called "Living in America" performed by James Brown just give me a taste of living in America

Listen it and enjoy!

"A lot of people around the world have ideas of what America is like, possibly thanks to Hollywood, or their local news channels, and maybe from what they’ve heard from families and friends. But then, they came here, to the grand old United States and their minds exploded." Quota