When I returned from living abroad in Europe and Asia for more than five years, I suffered from some reverse culture shock: I found it hard to settle back in to "normal" life in Australia, I felt detached from my friends, and I was sad that nobody seemed to want to hear about my time away and many …
reverse culture shock
When people equate talking about travels to bragging or showing off
I've mentioned before that if I start a story with a sentence like "When I lived in Bratislava ..." that people sometimes have a giggle at me. Same goes for "When I was in Tunisia ..." or "When I was on the Trans-Siberian ..." As far as I can figure (and some of this figuring out comes from …
Reader question: There’s no place called home?
My biggest move ever: from my German home to my Australian homeI get quite a few emails from readers who have found my blog while looking for resources on reverse culture shock, and last week another reader, Allan, left a message on the Facebook page about surviving reverse culture shock - and he …