Having gone to college out of state and then lived abroad numerous times during my time at college, I thought that my move back to Spain would be easy. I would be lying if I said that I had no problem transitioning from my small town in Poland to the bigger city in Spain. I was scared the whole first week I first moved to Oviedo. I didn't want to go outside my apartment after finding it and moving in. I didn't want to leave my room and remember that my friends from the U.S. and Poland were not within a quick drive or walking distance anymore. I didn't want to use my Spanish (which had gotten worse the longer I didn't use it) with the locals in fear that they would laugh at me as I struggled to say even the simplest of sentences. And I also didn't want to have to learn where the supermarket was, where a new favorite cafe was, etc.. To sum it up, I didn't want to have to go through rebuilding a community around me again for the fifth time in my life.
After a few days of me hiding in my apartment, I came to my senses and realized how silly I was being. I had done this numerous times before, so why was this experience any different? So I forced myself to get up and out the door and spoke Spanish with the first person I could find.
