Cultural shock ( Journal#3 )

Free writing! I like this topic, let’s talk about stressful situations, which take place in lifetime of many international students, when they leave their countries, families, friends and move to another part of the world. Of course, they experience cultural shock.

Changes of climate, water, food, people, and culture influence your body and mind. You need time to get used to new life conditions, meanwhile your organism is in shock state. You are homesick, your mood changes all the time from happiness to sadness and vice versa, sometimes you are sleepy and depressed, etc.

If we look at this problem from biological point of view, we know, that all cells of human body renew during seven years. Don’t you think it’s a lot of time? When we change surrounding environment very fast, we force our organism to adapt to new conditions in ultimately short term of time. That’s why every cell of our body sends impulse to the brain, that it doesn’t feel comfortable. But people interpret these impulses as desire to return home. As a result we feel boredom.

There is also psychological side of this problem. We leave in our home countries everything that was important for us. We miss our friends, families, trifles which brought sense in our lives before. You are lucky if you have somebody in a foreign country. But if you don’t, in this case your social and personal connections with outside world depend on your ability to communicate with people.

Anyway be optimist, do your best to get used to new circumstances. And never forget, EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT!