Importance Of My Trip To Europe

Have you ever wanted to travel the world, to see the world in a whole new light? To see and experience new cultures? To be able to meet new people? To be able to go somewhere you would never thought to imagine? Traveling abroad is one of the most exciting, exhilarating, and worthwhile experience you could ever imagine. I was so thankful that my parents allowed me to go to Europe the summer after my sophomore year of high school, because it expanded my knowledge on different cultures and enabled me to improve my Spanish and to learn other languages.

During my second year at Fort Zumwalt North High School, I had heard about the trip to Europe. I was sitting at my desk, in my first hour class-Spanish-waiting for the bell to ring, when my Spanish

From the window, I saw the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Notre Dame Cathedral. After landing, we got our bags, dropped our stuff off at the hotel, and went to the Louvre. There, we saw paintings, like the Mona Lisa, which was heavily protected. We also saw sculptures, like the Venus de Milo, which is a sculpture of Aphrodite. After looking around the Louvre, we left to start the walking tour until we reached the Arc de Triomphe. We paid to go up the monument and the sight was breathtaking. I literally mean breathtaking because we had to climb about 250 flight of stairs due to elevators not working. The view was also breathtaking. You could see almost all of Paris and The Eiffel Tower from top to bottom. On our second and last day in Paris, we had a lot to do. We first went on a bus tour with a local tour guide and then we drove around for an hour to get to the Palaces of Versailles. Out of all the events that happened that day, the one I that I remember the most was the bomb threat. It was after dinner and we had gone to the Eiffel Tower. We were told that we were allowed to go up the tower. When my group was in line to pay for our ticket, the police had come. They told everyone to leave right away. Mrs. Parker went to ask one of the officers nearby what was going on, all he said was “a bomb” with the straightest face ever. At

I had learned two lessons while in Spain. The first was when we went to dinner, the food that was served to us was traditional Spaniard food. Whereas in France, we were only served food that you could eat in the Unites States. The second lesson I had learned the hard way.All banks and business were closed on Friday through Sunday. I had come to this realization when I needed to exchange some more money due to me spending almost all of my money in France. While in Spain, I also saw two interesting things. One were the people at the beaches. I had gone to two beaches, one being in San Sebastian, on our first day in Spain, and the other being in Barcelona, where we spent our last three days in Europe. What was interesting about these beaches was that they were both topless or nude beaches. The beaches I’ve been to never have had people who were ever topless or nude because they would probably get arrested for indecent exposure. The second thing that I had found interesting is when it was our last day in Spain, we got to experience a first-hand attempted drug deal. My group and I had spent the last day shopping and trying to spend all our Euros, we took a break by some stairs near a statue. On the left of us, there was a group of people. Some were giving a guy money, and the guy was giving something back. The next moment, the guy that received the money walked up to us and asked if we wanted to buy