High School Lunch Culture
One the most underrated culture shocks for me was high school lunch. Yes, lunch. In Spain, lunch isn't really a "school thing". You either go home to eat and come back afterward, or stay at school and have the ridiculously expensive cafeteria food, which not many people choose to do. Lunch break in Spain is pretty long too, about 2 hours, so some people even squeeze in a little siesta. Then... lunch time in the US. I remember being so scared about who I was gonna sit with at lunch the first day. I had seen the movies where the new girl wanders around with a tray and nobody lets her sit down, and I was so scared that was gonna be me. But actually, I ended up being so lucky and by lunch time I already had a bunch of people offering me a spot at their lunch table. To be honest, I didn't even remember their faces or names, so I just sat with whoever waved at me first and I stuck with them all year. The cafeteria food's not good either, but at least in my high sc...