(This was written on Sunday, 3\/17\/13)<\/p>\n
\u201cCulture shock,\u201d or \u201cculture stress,\u201d can be described as \u201cthe anxiety that results from losing all the familiar signs and symbols that help us understand a situation\u201d (definition from CLA Methodology, MTC). And that\u2019s a bit of what I\u2019ve been feeling this week. It\u2019s when you\u2019ve been trying to learn and be involved and get to know people and you find out that they interpret your actions as not wanting to do any of those. It\u2019s when they say to ask questions about anything you don\u2019t understand, so later in the conversation you ask a question and find out that you weren\u2019t supposed to ask about that. It\u2019s when you\u2019re told to learn to cook but then told you can\u2019t today. It\u2019s a hard thing, but for anyone living in another culture long enough I\u2019ve been told it\u2019s normal and that over time I\u2019ll get used to life not working like it does in the US. In the meantime, I\u2019d love your continued prayers. But culture shock is also an opportunity to spend a lot of time with God in the Bible and in prayer, and I have to say that that helped a lot.<\/p>\n
Here are a few other \u201cpositives\u201d from this last week:<\/p>\n
– I got to visit a friend from My Country<\/p>\n
– I got to visit the house of one of the girls who I\u2019ve gotten to know through Compassion International. It was great to spend an afternoon with her, her friends, and her family.<\/p>\n
– I got to watch part of the movie Tangled. (When you\u2019re really struggling with culture shock it can be good to withdraw for a while. This was a great break.)<\/p>\n
– I got to spend time with Paul and Marina, who are in leadership with New Tribes. It was great to get to talk to them and share what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s always wonderful to have an understanding, listening ear, especially when they understand!<\/p>\n
Thanks so much for your prayers as I continue to adjust to life in My Country. I couldn\u2019t be here without you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(This was written on Sunday, 3\/17\/13) \u201cCulture shock,\u201d or \u201cculture stress,\u201d can be described as \u201cthe anxiety that results from losing all the familiar signs and symbols that help us understand a situation\u201d (definition from CLA Methodology, MTC). And that\u2019s a bit of what I\u2019ve been feeling this week. It\u2019s when you\u2019ve been trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}