Living in another country.
By Lore2009
@Lore2009 (7378)
United States
November 21, 2010 6:22pm CST
Have you ever lived in another country before for at least 6 months or more? How has this experience affected you? Did you have to learn the new language and make new friends? How difficult was it to adapt? Did you have to eat foods you never tried and did you miss the things you were accustomed to?
I've never lived in another country besides my own. But I would like to try, one day.
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@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
28 Nov 10
I did a working holiday in Australia as part of my journey around the world. I felt very at home there and they speak my mother tongue language. I found the people friendly and made friends with some of them plus foreigners. It had acceptable food for my diet.
For a semester I studied in the Netherlands and I tried to learn the Dutch language. I had Dutch lessons. I tried to speak it n my neighborhood. However the local people replied in English for me and German for my German friends. The Dutch people are the foreign language masters of the world. I made lots of friends with the other students.
@hushi22 (4927)
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22 Nov 10
i havent really lived in another country but i kinda spent almost a month in Thailand with my bf and also a month in Luzon. those were really exciting times, but there were times that i truly miss the dishes in my house/homecountry esp when i stayed long in Thailand. i just dont like their pad thai.
@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
22 Nov 10
I am a Canadian, who lived in the USA for a year. The politics down there are very different, and while a lot of cultural things are the same, the political stuff drove me absolutely crazy, after a while. I was there in 2007-08 right around the time of the election campaign, so I was up to my friggen ears in American politics.
