Culture Shock
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When I was in my hometown Hong Kong, I always wanted to go to other countries to study, because I thought that I would have more freedom and I wanted to get rid of my mother since I thought that she was very annoying at that time. Finally, I chose United States. The several months before I came to US, I always wanted to come to US as fast as possible since I thought that US is pretty much like a paradise. I thought that the people here are very nice, the places are very beautiful and the air is fresh. However, after I came to here, I found that US is not as good as what I thought before. The bad thing is that I experienced the culture shock rapidly after several weeks I came to here. In this essay, I will mainly talk about how did I experienced and fight the culture shock and what did I changed after that experience.
The culture shock suffered me for around a month and that time is the most difficult time in my life. During the first few weeks, I was excited by everything in US because they were new to me. However, after those weeks, I started to feel anxious about my family and my friends, especially my mother. Although sometimes they would gave me some phone calls and sent e-mails to me, those things would just made me cried and thought more about them. I missed my motherÐŽ¦s food and even her annoyance very much at that time. In those days, I was feeling lonely and almost sleepless at every night. Besides loneliness, there were some communication problems. When I talked to some people in school, they seemed do not understand what I was talking about since my English was very poor at that time. I had the feelings of being lost, overlooked, unsecured and unwillingness to interact with others. Nevertheless, my feelings was getting better and better as I was getting more familiar with the people and environment of US.
I used some ways to fight the culture shock. First, I recognized the sorrow of leaving Hong Kong, and accepted the things in America. Because I knew that I could not just stay at the corner for four years and I knew that I still had a long way to go. In addition, I started to open up myself and talked more to the foreigners since I wanted to improve my English. That helped me feel less stress about language and useful at the same time. Moreover, I kept contact with my parents and my friends,