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If your first time leaving your home country was for a study abroad program, you likely heard warnings of something called ‘reverse culture shock’ waiting for you upon your return. Don’t be fooled into thinking it won’t happen to you. Reverse culture shock will sneak up before you even know it’s coming. My first time…
Across seas and even centuries, there are similarities. In the American midwest, we’ve got our porches, rocking chairs, bug screens and mugs. Ten minutes outside of Grantham, England, sits a Victorian manor. But, sitting on its steps at sunset on a school night, the foreign sense of grandeur becomes comfortable. Soon, I’m no longer out…