Find an article about culture shock in your host country. Summarize the article and offer your thoughts, as appropriate to the article. You can offer suggestions, agreement, disagreement, relevant accounts, and/or reflection.
I read an article by a girl living in Dakar who is experiencing difficulty with homesickness and, as I’m sure I will be, issues with her laptop. She was one of the only people on her trip that brought a laptop (as I will be), and everyone else wants to use it to email, Skype, update blogs, etc. People use it without her permission and it just doesn’t help her discomfort in the new culture to have that much stress put on her.
I can relate to this account because I have a feeling I’ll be in her place in just a few months, and I have difficulty not sharing my things with others. I feel like she should have set limits in the very beginning, or not let anyone use her laptop altogether—that may sound selfish, but there are other resources available for the other people, and others using the technology she chose to bring and went the extra mile to be able to bring shouldn’t be intruding on her ability to use it. I admired, in the end of her post, her ability to still see the beautiful side of her experience even in a difficult time.
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