5.1.8 Health and safety
Completion requirements
Even before being sent to the country of mobility, it is highly recommended to inform yourself about the topics of health & safety.
It encompasses lots of aspects, both in everyday life abroad and at work:
1. Culture Shocks in everyday life
Reverse cultural shock:
Also get slowly mentally prepared for this common phenomenon as you travel back home after the training abroad:
>>> Observations
For more details: https://www.goabroad.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-reverse-culture-shock
- Changed relationships: friends married or moved away
- Learning how to take a different transportation system
- Complete routine and lifestyle changes like sitting at an office when you were previously on your feet all day
- No one wants to listen to your travel stories
- Having heated conversations with your relatives because your political view has changed
- Missing feeling special in the foreign country; no longer receiving warm greetings as you walk by
- Having a life-changing experience that no one else around you can relate to
- People expect you to be the same person you were before leaving
- Family and friends think you are bragging all the time because you are always comparing things to life overseas
- Some think you are being ungrateful and pretentious for wanting to go abroad again
- Family and friends don’t understand why you think and feel the way you do
>>> 9 tips for dealing with reverse culture shock
For more details: https://www.goabroad.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-reverse-culture-shock
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