105 Learning journal #5

[Dong wook Lee]

I just start my US life as a traveler. Me and my friend drove from San francisco to New york. While traveling I felt some culture shock. Actually it was not that shocked but it is quite different though. Compared to Korea, for me American people seems like they have some kind of obsession for holding the door. It was first culture shock to me. They always tried to keep the door but Korean does not care about the door that much. I thought it is kind of express their kindness but now I am thinking that they just do not like to make other people upset. They are quite defensive each other that is my opinion about holding the doors. Second thing is the time chnage. When I travel to Arizona to Utah or Nevada, I want to go Entelope Canyon and participate in guide tour(Acutually participating in tour is the only way to see Entelope canyon). We drove to Arizona to Utah and tried to make reservation for the tour, but the time just changed we did not calculate the time change, so we missed the prime tour and had to wait for next tour. Korea is kind of small country compared to US so we do not have time change so it was my first experience to have time change in my life. It is quite new and interesting that in same country they have several different time. Giving tips to server is another one. We also do not have tips in Korea, so at the first time we just forgot to give them, so they just grab us to go out, and we should pay the tips and said sorry for that. About turkey, I am not sure that it is proper things but really culture shock is man shaving their armpit hair.