Experiential blog: #2

What surprised me about being an American in Grantham was how the locals treated me. Living in America I think a lot of people hold the belief that Europeans don't like people from the United States. All of the people I have encountered in Grantham have treated me no differently than they would any other person, many people I talked to at the pubs in town were very curiously about why I was in Europe, if I liked it here, and what I was studying at home. This experience with the locals has taught me not to give into stigmas or prejudices against people simply because I think they have this predisposed idea of Americans, because more often than not it's completely false.