Part of our required reading before we came here mentioned that what often causes culture shock is not necessarily any one overwhelming aspect about the new culture, but that so many little things are now different. It seems like that right now as nothing has been incredibly difficult, but nothing is easy.
I especially feel this in class right now and today was only the first day. Typically, in every class I've been in or sermon I've listened to, I can take a 1 minute (sometimes longer) mental break and pick back up without missing much. Today, I had a few times where I took a 10 second mental break and then have the teacher ask, "Do you comprehend?" To which, I must honestly say, "I have no idea." We also did an exercise where we had to spell and pronounce the names of other countries in French and I realized, I only know the correct french spellings of a few countries in the whole world. That left me wondering if I could even compete on a French version of "are you smarter than 1st grader?"
Needless to say, my brain hurt at the end of class today worse than it ever has.
2 comments:
Dude, "1st grader" is not the preferred, uh. . . "Amateurs". Please. "You're like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie and wants to know--"
Can't wait till you are an "Achiever."
Chop-chop!
I remember studying Russian before we left for Ukraine, only to hear everybody talking all around me and straining to hear just ONE familiar word. Da? Niet?
It is so different LIVING a language.
My guess is Addie will perfect it first. LOL
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