reverse culture shock

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  • Ricardo in Brazil
  • 05-Feb-2019
Back in the Homeland: Both of Us Different?

“Ta…” I responded to my sister when she told me we would go grab lunch. The word is a responseRead More ⇾

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  • Destiny in Greece
  • 01-Jun-2016
Miss You Greece, Be Back Soon!

I’m home. It feels strange to call any place other than my little apartment in Athens home now, but thisRead More ⇾

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  • Christina in Paris
  • 30-Dec-2015
Farewell and Reflection

Saying goodbye to all of the friends that I made in Paris was very hard for me. They were theRead More ⇾

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  • Zachary in Turkey
  • 19-Jul-2015
To Istanbul and Beyond

When I first arrived in Turkey, everything was very new and strange. However, all of that was expected because IRead More ⇾

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  • Doug in Thailand
  • 12-Jul-2015
Reverse Culture Shock

Reverse culture shock is a phenomenon I hardly believed was real when I set off for my study abroad. IRead More ⇾

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  • Lily in the United Kingdom
  • 09-Jul-2015
Farewell, England

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set footRead More ⇾

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  • Zachary in Turkey
  • 26-Jun-2015
That Time I Couldn’t Speak My Own Language

The first time I think I really experienced culture shock was when I got to the Istanbul Atatürk Airport passport control.Read More ⇾

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  • Charlotte in Jordan
  • 18-Jun-2015
Pushing Your Limits: The Value of Study Abroad

Here's a graph about culture shock, which should seem familiar since it pops up on this blog a lot.  Read More ⇾

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  • Gabby in Kyrgyzstan
  • 10-Sep-2014
There and Back Again

To be honest, I think I got a little cocky after not really experiencing very much culture shock while IRead More ⇾

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  • Abigail in England
  • 07-Jul-2014
In the blink of an eye…

It was 5:15 am on the morning of June 4th, I stayed up all night long with the my studyRead More ⇾

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  • David in Jordan
  • 03-Jul-2014
Home Again

Our experience in Jordan flew by! At the beginning of my family's time there we dove right into the culture.Read More ⇾

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  • Chinazo in South Korea
  • 13-Jun-2014
Culture Shock… What’s that?

I’ll be honest, I used to laugh at the idea of culture shock and reverse culture shock. Now for me,Read More ⇾