Journal Entry #9

[bethany marcelle]

My sister and I experiencing dysphoria and culture shock after a few weeks in Karnatka. 
In the Culture Shock video I was struck by the idea that the shock is not just the initial realization of difference, but it is the dysphoria that can come after the excitement of a new place has worn off. I experienced this when I was in India. I have traveled throughout South America and Europe and I've never really had a culture that caused dysphoria before going to India. Initially there was excitement about wearing the clothing and the new food and how different the people and the landscape and the culture was, but by the end of my three weeks there I was "over" India in the initial excitement and Karnatka had become difficult and daily and normal to some extent.