Nightlife

The nightlife in Salamanca was by far the best part of the whole experience. Being a university town, Salamanca was crawling with students all around my age and almost every night there was something going on. For the most part the people I went out with spoke English; but, where ever we went we would have to speak in Spanish to order things or to be friendly with people. Each night quickly became full of social networking with people from all over the world. I found that for the most part the people who were from the U.S. were college juniors studying abroad and they were always shocked when I explained that I was just a freshman. Lucky for me, in European countries it is very popular to take a year off after high school before you go to college, which meant that I had other people my age to hang out with. It was cool to hang out with so many new people from all different backgrounds because everyone brought something new to the table. At any given moment, there was a new joke to tell, a new game to play, or a new trick to try which kept us all on our toes. I soon found that every night out I became more and more outgoing and more and more independent. I came into the whole experience with the idea that I would try to branch out a lot more than I normally would because I really didn’t have much to lose since I would only be there for a few months. I think that going out and meeting new people each night made me become the mentality more like the guys I encountered on my first nights out in Madrid.