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These days, I was thinking about my self-development during my stay in Vancouver. I not only learnt English, I have been learning how to socialize with another culture. It is obvious all these differences have a strong impact in the first moments, but after a while you have to absorb and try to adapt and respect. I don't think that we should compare and make assumptions of which is "better" or "makes more sense". If go abroad and live as you live in your country, it doesn't make any sense! Travel to distant place, sometimes in a trip that takes one or more days, means experience new situations. So, if you keep your old habits and thoughts, you will never enjoy the maximum of you can. When I was in school, I used to observe student's behavior. After classes, most of them met their same-country friends and started to speak their native language.. What?!?! I just could think: "They are spending money for nothing!!!" It was rare find someone worrie...

Today I wrote more than 800 words. I was training for the writing task 1 and was getting difficult to reach the limit of 150 words; I was writing 130 or 140! I struggled! I put my hands in my face I said: "Why I can not?!?! This is not possible!!!". I was angry with myself, almost disappointed. So I decided to write until I get more than 150. My target now is 170! I wrote about the same chart twice. And I got it: 176 words. And I decided to write more and I wrote three charts. If you think that I used computer to count the letters, you're wrong. I used my hands.....and I set the alarm. I had 20 minutes to write. It is exaustive, monotony, boring. But once you archive your goal, all of that stop to matter. You just think about your small victory.