I'm going to be moving back to the US in August, after 3 years in Israel, so I've been very interested in reading what you have to say about reverse culture shock. I honestly don't know how I'm going to feel. Israel is, in most ways, so Western and so much like the US that most of my original culture shock came from being lulled into a false sense of feeling like I knew how to handle every situation, and then suddenly being confronted with an unexpected unfamiliarity.
I expect language to be hard for me. I've gotten very used to being bilingual, surrounded by other bilinguals. My Hebrew is peppered with English and my English is peppered with Hebrew. My English vocabulary has become appallingly limited. That will probably come back quickly.
I'm sad to move off a calendar built around Jewish times and holidays, and back onto a Christian/American one. I'm happy to get Sunday back, but I'll miss Shabbat.
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Date: 2010-07-05 09:55 am (UTC)I expect language to be hard for me. I've gotten very used to being bilingual, surrounded by other bilinguals. My Hebrew is peppered with English and my English is peppered with Hebrew. My English vocabulary has become appallingly limited. That will probably come back quickly.
I'm sad to move off a calendar built around Jewish times and holidays, and back onto a Christian/American one. I'm happy to get Sunday back, but I'll miss Shabbat.
Not sure what else.