SDLC105 Learning Journal #5

[cien zhang]

I am interested in the "Culture Shock"  video because it did reflect my experience of being an international student who first came to America and started to study here for four years. The idea of "honeymoon phase" made me have a better understanding of my experience here after first coming two months. At the beginning, I did not have homesick due to new environment and things. However, after two months, I realized there were huge differences between America cultures and Chinese cultures and I found some of them were difficult for me to overcome. For example, even though there are plenty of food choice in dhall, I still missed the Chinese food so much and found that I was not able to get used to the oily and fried food here. Moreover, in China, we usually wash clothes and then put them dry under sunshine. But here people use dryer machines. The culture shock happened nearly everyday when I came to America after two months. Although there are lots of differences in cultures, I enjoyed learning the diversity and adjust myself in order to make the transaction more smoothly.