Wanting to travel to a new country has been on my bucket list for about ten years now. I never thought I'd have the opportunity to couple a culture change while also studying psychology. It's important to me to gain a greater understanding of the world around me. Being an introvert is tough in some cases, but it provides me a unique perspective to the world around me. As a consequence, I've always been a people watcher. When I entered a university, I knew within a couple weeks that I was being called to study behavior. As I progressed through the Psychology program, I realized that my passion was brain-behavioral differences between cultures. I am absolutely enthralled with studying why people do what they do and how their lifestyle effects their paradigms. As I begin this new journey, one that I don't think will end with me coming home at the end of May, I hope to gain a greater empathy people. I don't want to ever want to lose my faith in humanity to adapt and become better than they already are.
With this in mind, I'd like to focus my study abroad experience even more. I'd like to focus on discovering the Spanish paradigm and all it entails. If I can walk away with from this trip with one thing, it should be the ability to see life the way natives of Spain see it. This won't be easy, but it will be the stepping stone for me into my undergraduate research that I will be starting in a year. I plan on mostly observing people. Interaction is inevitable, but I should be able to discovery motivation through careful study of the new culture.
This blog will serve the purpose of recording my adventures and new understanding of the Spanish culture and the new insights on social cognition and health psychology.
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