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I can now say I’m officially back in the states and am finally stationary for a while. Constantly on the move throughout the UK was wonderful but it’s great to be home and look back on the good and the bad that took place over the past month. I don’t think I realized I learned as much as I did until reminiscing about my trip with my family and friends. One question I was constantly asked was what was the favorite part. The generic answer would be: everything but to be more specific my favorite part was the first days in Edinburgh, Scotland. To the rest of my peers most would say it was the absolute worst but as a whole those days we truly saw what a typical day in Scotland was like. It rained non-stop and was freezing…quite a drastic change from London and our humid Indiana homes. Essentially we were adapting to their way of life and one night in particular we saw this as we ordered dinner from “The Codfather.” In America you can pretty much have anything “Your Way” but as we noticed from the restaurant they didn’t really understand why we had all these requests as to how our food should be prepared. Almost everyone’s food was not how he or she wanted it and overall it came to be remembered by me as “The Fried Pizza Night.”

In my previous post I talked a lot about experiencing and appreciating. Those first few days in Edinburgh, while not right away but in the end I appreciated getting to experience them. Those days were different then all the rest and it was great be able to realize the contrast of that to my everyday life in the states. Along with my continuing research of class in our societies, I’m back to being surrounded by the “You can do anything you want” mentality and I have a new outlook on it. Both the UK and America’s outlooks on class are different in many ways but I respect each one. I wish earning college credit was always this fun.