Moving to a Foreign Country
Anum Yousaf
Professor Katy Rittle
ENG 111/ENF3
19 February 2014
Moved to a Foreign Country
I recently moved to United States from Pakistan. Living away from your country can be a really interesting and unforgettable experience, but at the same time it has very important effects on one's life.
The major experience, and also a very common one, is the one I have experienced is once you start a regular life away from home, you miss everything. This fact doesn't mean that you are unhappy but that you are aware of being on your own. For instance I miss my family and the attention they all paid to me is a very usual thing to do. Little details we did like sitting on a Sunday morning watching TV alone instead of helping your mom around the house, or having a nice chat with my sisters makes me realize how valuable my family really is. I wake up to an empty house here in the morning, and I come from a house where there are at least 4 people at a time. It's been difficult to adjust but at the same time its only then have started to appreciate everything you had back where you belong.
The second experience I have come across is learning how to accept another type of society and culture into my daily life. Since you are living in a place with different customs and traditions from yours, you have to be able to develop yourself in unknown conditions. There are many different types of experiences I have encountered from adjusting to a new culture in a foreign country. One example of a cultural experience I have faced is religion. A person moving from to a predominately Muslim country might experience a form of culture shock when moving to a foreign country. It took me some time to get used to the canters not calling out prayers over a load speaker that can be heard for miles. However this transition was not that bad, as I have experienced my fellow American's more open to accepting Islam. I am easily allowed from work to go to my Friday prayers.
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Professor Katy Rittle
ENG 111/ENF3
19 February 2014
Moved to a Foreign Country
I recently moved to United States from Pakistan. Living away from your country can be a really interesting and unforgettable experience, but at the same time it has very important effects on one's life.
The major experience, and also a very common one, is the one I have experienced is once you start a regular life away from home, you miss everything. This fact doesn't mean that you are unhappy but that you are aware of being on your own. For instance I miss my family and the attention they all paid to me is a very usual thing to do. Little details we did like sitting on a Sunday morning watching TV alone instead of helping your mom around the house, or having a nice chat with my sisters makes me realize how valuable my family really is. I wake up to an empty house here in the morning, and I come from a house where there are at least 4 people at a time. It's been difficult to adjust but at the same time its only then have started to appreciate everything you had back where you belong.
The second experience I have come across is learning how to accept another type of society and culture into my daily life. Since you are living in a place with different customs and traditions from yours, you have to be able to develop yourself in unknown conditions. There are many different types of experiences I have encountered from adjusting to a new culture in a foreign country. One example of a cultural experience I have faced is religion. A person moving from to a predominately Muslim country might experience a form of culture shock when moving to a foreign country. It took me some time to get used to the canters not calling out prayers over a load speaker that can be heard for miles. However this transition was not that bad, as I have experienced my fellow American's more open to accepting Islam. I am easily allowed from work to go to my Friday prayers.
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