Kind of "Reentry-Shock"

This post is about my kind of cultural "Reentry Shock" I had this weekend. 

Gullahorn & Gullahorn are describing that shock in their theory as a shock you suffer while moving back to your home after a while abroad. 

your well-known envorinment changed and your personality as well, you have to adapt to it again, a second cultural shock, a process in life, which is happening over and over again.

This weekend was kind of a reentry cultural skock, not a real one, because I wasn't back home, but my family was over here. My parents, my sister and my grandparents. 

This was a really suprising experience for me, because I did not believe that the habits and the thinking and all the things taken for granted could really be that unfamiliar for me just after 2 month being away from home. 

But when it came to plan breakfast and dinner, or the so called "relationship to time" and the "relationship to peple", as well as the Monochronic or the Polychronic behavior or the Proxemics of Hall, to all this my thoughts the past three days were: my ideal home is not that ideal anymore.

We were acting so differently when it came to these things. 

Especially because I changed in some way since I am here.

In many situation the past weekend I realized that and automatically analysed it with the theories we got to know in the course. 

And some things really helped to manage the little shocks I had:

• noting that the cultural shock is inevitable
• keeping expectations realistic and trying to increase familiarity AND
• being patient and having humor!!!