tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362382338708461974.post535485815196122904..comments2024-03-14T00:16:16.353-07:00Comments on A Reading Nurse!: FFBC DAY 4 - REVIEW OF INK BY AMANDA SUNAReadingNursehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00367915097887646362noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362382338708461974.post-43316068146480414272013-06-24T14:54:41.589-07:002013-06-24T14:54:41.589-07:00I would be find with the new culture, but the lang...I would be find with the new culture, but the language would be incredibly difficult for me to adjust to. I have tried quite unsuccessfully to learn 2 different languages, and I would worry that I would be constantly confused and lost!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06869912926768194358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362382338708461974.post-7341255883374946612013-06-24T11:50:30.031-07:002013-06-24T11:50:30.031-07:00I think I would have some trouble at first fitting...I think I would have some trouble at first fitting into the new environment and culture at first. It would be rather of a shock and too radical. But if I really needed to adjust to that new type of living, I would try my best to be part of it, not forgetting my own culture, embracing the new one and trying to understand it better.<br /><br />I think the most difficult part would be the language. But as people normally say, you need to go through things in order to fully understand them and learn from them. <br /><br />XX NerLeonor (Ner)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00178904834574312692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362382338708461974.post-1055062691099496552013-06-23T09:53:55.831-07:002013-06-23T09:53:55.831-07:00I'd like to think I would adapt mostly because...I'd like to think I would adapt mostly because I am open to learning more about a different country. As long as I have someone with me I'm comfortable with I can adapt. I just think that I would have a difficult time with a foreign language if anything. Alexjuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16022520927546507040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362382338708461974.post-61898236580324833562013-06-18T23:59:58.654-07:002013-06-18T23:59:58.654-07:00I moved to Hawaii from the Philippines and somehow...I moved to Hawaii from the Philippines and somehow, I was able to adjust in a short amount of time. It's probably because I can adapt to things easily.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06337451961284294240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362382338708461974.post-75629520169914065802013-06-18T21:04:23.670-07:002013-06-18T21:04:23.670-07:00I would handle moving to a truly foreign country i...I would handle moving to a truly foreign country in exactly the way I handled it in my college years, when I (an American) studied abroad in Russia and the Czech Republic. I was a Russian language and literature student, so I had some rudimentary Russian skills at the time I lived there, but I had trouble speaking, and understanding native Russian speakers proved difficult, too (my university professors were Swedish and Chinese, so I could read and write better than I could speak or understand).<br /><br />When I moved to the Czech Republic to finish my business degree, I did not speak any Czech. I did, however, enroll in a Czech language class for the semester I was at the university there.<br /><br />I was not worried about any of these moves. I handled moving from the U.S.A. to the Far East (Russia, for five-weeks the summer of 1995), Siberia (August to August, 1995 to 1996) and the Czech Republic (Fall/Autumn 1997) by going over there without any expectations whatsoever. Well, that's not entirely true: I expected to be challenged and to have a grand time. And so I did. Everything was new and challenging and, while my first few months in Russia were especially difficult, full of hardships and tears, I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.<br /><br />The hardest thing about adjusting proved to be blending in by not staring with open-mouthed awe at the sights around me everyday. I was just so happy to be there. And I would be again were I to ever be fortunate enough to move again to foreign country. :)<br /><br />Someday I hope to go to Iceland, Slovenia, Mongolia, Thailand, and a few other countries I can't think to name at the moment. I do not speak the language of any of these countries, and I doubt I will take a class in them before I go. I'll do what I did when I moved to Prague in the Czech Republic. If I'm moving there, I'll enroll in a class there. If I'm just visiting, I'll be open to the language and culture around me, absorbing as much as I can in the time I'll have there.<br /><br />Adjusting is not so hard to do when you don't have any expectations. Without expectations, you are open to everything, as I was in my younger years. Most people are friendly, and if you are respectful and friendly in turn, even a language barrier cannot prevent understanding. There are other ways to communicate, after all. Smiles, charades, pointing to something you want to buy if shopping, etc, can all be used to "talk" to someone when language issues arise.<br /><br />I hope one day to move back to Russia. By the time I do, it is likely I will have forgotten all of what I once knew, so I will be starting from scratch. I expect that it will be an exhilarating experience. Beyond this, I will have no further expectations. :)reader44ever - Jen Greenleeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13508562034782172406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362382338708461974.post-75535403817863290262013-06-18T17:02:15.444-07:002013-06-18T17:02:15.444-07:00The only problem I would have is probably the lang...The only problem I would have is probably the language barrier if there was one. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16666550715124828798noreply@blogger.com