5.1.8 Health and safety

Reverse cultural shock:

Also get slowly mentally prepared for this common phenomenon as you travel back home after the training abroad:

>>>  Observations    
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1. Changed relationships: friends married or moved away
2. Learning how to take a different transportation system
3. Complete routine and lifestyle changes like sitting at an office when you were previously on your feet all day
4. No one wants to listen to your travel stories
5. Having heated conversations with your relatives because your political view has changed
6. Missing feeling special in the foreign country; no longer receiving warm greetings as you walk by
7. Having a life-changing experience that no one else around you can relate to
8. People expect you to be the same person you were before leaving
9. Family and friends think you are bragging all the time because you are always comparing things to life overseas
10. Some think you are being ungrateful and pretentious for wanting to go abroad again
11. Family and friends don’t understand why you think and feel the way you do

>>>  9 tips for dealing with reverse culture shock  
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1. Acknowledge that you changed and it’s normal
2. Find resources to help for you embrace reverse culture shock in a healthy way
3. Do the things you loved to do overseas
4. Keep in touch with your travel group or friends from abroad
5. Find a community that relates to you
6. Channel your memories in a positive way
7. Help others travel abroad
8. Explore your home country like a tourist
9. Move on—or travel again