Culture Shock Living Abroad (part 1)
If you have a plan to come and stay in the UK, of course you need to prepare for everything, right? So, here I am going to talk about the culture shock that I found as I am living here, in Liverpool as part of the UK. First, the weather! As an Indonesian, all of my life, I lived in a tropical area, and I got used to the hot and warm weather. The temperature in my city is around 27 - 31 degrees Celsius. Even if it is a rainy season in our city, it never reaches below 20 degrees. So, when I came here, my first week was awful! The weather was always around 11 or 12 degrees Celsius. If you ever went to Mount Bromo, then you know the feeling. I was freezing all the time! Yes, all the time! Going outside was a challenge for me. I couldn't handle the weather and the bad thinking sometimes played in my mind, like 'What if I got hypothermia?'. That kind of thinking played around my mind every time I went out of my room, especially if I had to stay for a long time outside. There was ...