Kelly #86: Reverse Culture Shock

It was definitely a difference going from living with younger classmates who could legally drink to ones who were older than that but could not drink. When I was in England I got questions like how did I like being able to legally drink. They forgot that I was 21 when I studied abroad so I could already legally drink in my home country. Someone also asked the tried and true question of why young adults in the U.S. can vote and die at war when they are 18 but cannot drink until they are 21. Still, I do not know the answer to that.

And even though my roommates my final semester of college did not want to go out on a week night, didn’t stop me from going with my other senior classmates. In fact, my final one was the only semester I had in college where I partied the most, took the most classes, and managed to get my only 4.0 of my college career. Now I wish I had that same kind of stamina.

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