Betsy Elliott, chapter 11, question 6

This chapter brought up some memories from my Sweden trip I went on with a Swedish girls choir. I used to be in a Swedish girls choir and every three years they would visit Sweden. One year we went and when we got to Sweden we need to change our currency so we went to a machine and it did it for us. In America I knew what a dollars value was and what I should be able to buy with it, but I didn't know with the Swedish currency. Since I was about ten years old I didn't really care, so I would spend my money on ice cream at every gas station not knowing buying it was equivalent to a five dollar purchase back home. I wasn't "stolen" from like Wheelan was when he went to China but I've always wondered why the entire world doesn't have the same currency to make everything some much easier.