BigChild: -I would be living over there with my Grandpa. Don't get me wrong he's a freaking cool dude, but I don't know how he would react to having an American there. - I don't know how he would react to graffiti and general ruin that's sometimes over there. Like we would get off the train and he would wanna pee and he would see that it would cost 2 dollars. :0 - His parents are kinda over protective, I don't know how they would react to just me and him going there without my parents. - The price of a ticket there is CRAZY. I looked around and I saw anything from 1100-1800 $!! I would say he's an upper class kid, but for a trip that seems crazy. -Culture shock for him. I wouldn't want him to get bored and want to go home. -Food. To be honest, I'm a picky eater and I'm not really a fan of Polish food, I don't hate it, but I wouldn't pass up a piece of pizza lol. I don't know if he would hate the food there. I mean there's a burger stand there and pizza etc, just don't know...
Oh come on food? It's not Egypt you're not gonna puke your guts out after eating something bought at an outside stall. I agree with WB, and it's part of discovering the culture - trying out things that are different from what you usually have.
I'm pretty sure you can see graffiti in US too, as are poorer districts and ruined places where industry died off, nothing new there. Peeing for 2$ where did you take that price from? I'm pretty sure Poland is a very inexpensive country from anyone from US.
As for culture shock - isn't it more like being scared of too much new stuff then being bored? He would be bored if everything was the same. And he might be bored if you gonna take him to some smalltown or a village. I'm pretty sure you'd like to take him to Krakow, Wroclaw, Warsaw or Tricity..
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