“Ta…” I responded to my sister when she told me we would go grab lunch. The word is a responseRead More ⇾
I’m home. It feels strange to call any place other than my little apartment in Athens home now, but thisRead More ⇾
Saying goodbye to all of the friends that I made in Paris was very hard for me. They were theRead More ⇾
When I first arrived in Turkey, everything was very new and strange. However, all of that was expected because IRead More ⇾
Reverse culture shock is a phenomenon I hardly believed was real when I set off for my study abroad. IRead More ⇾
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set footRead More ⇾
The first time I think I really experienced culture shock was when I got to the Istanbul Atatürk Airport passport control.Read More ⇾
Here's a graph about culture shock, which should seem familiar since it pops up on this blog a lot. Read More ⇾
To be honest, I think I got a little cocky after not really experiencing very much culture shock while IRead More ⇾
It was 5:15 am on the morning of June 4th, I stayed up all night long with the my studyRead More ⇾
Our experience in Jordan flew by! At the beginning of my family's time there we dove right into the culture.Read More ⇾
I’ll be honest, I used to laugh at the idea of culture shock and reverse culture shock. Now for me,Read More ⇾