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August 30th, 2010 - 8:11 am § in Around Town, Culture, Peru, Tips & Resources, Volunteer

Signing Off: Reverse Culture Shock and Lessons Learned from a Year Abroad

Last week I stepped onto U.S. soil for the first time in a year, and I admit that I’m experiencing a classic case of reverse culture shock. For the first few days I felt a pang of worry before drinking tap water, and was reluctant to throw toilet paper into the bowl. I wondered at [...][...]

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June 23rd, 2010 - 4:00 pm § in Culture, Day in the Life, Guatemala

As Is Life

Así es la vida. It is a popular phrase for life’s less pleasant moments that I have heard far too often this week. Just as the Chinese shrugged off government-enforced civil liberties violations, Guatemalans casually accept whatever hand is dealt, something many of us are too fortunate to underst[...]

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