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Living
Abroad
And
as the time passed by I realised that adaptation was not that hard
as I had just thought. Guess what! I could not even eat raw lettuce,
tomatoes. not to mention the exotic spaghetti and pizza, when I
first came, but now don't mention it - I could eat a horse. Food
here is not as good as food back home, but to survive we have got
to learn not to be choosy and ultimately to love some, if not most,
of the food here now, I had more problems in first year at ANU than
I have now and most of these are related more to relationships with
Australian and other overseas students rather than my studies.
After having spent a year in Melbourne where I mixed a lot
with overseas students, I found I had difficulties (1) adjusting
to uni. work, (2) mixing more with Westerners than Asians,
(3) with the climate (boy! was it cold that first win ter).
Finding some good trustworthy friends is most important to me and
if I can't confide in someone to give vent to my frustrations and
loneliness, it affects other areas of my life, especially my work.
Need less to say, being far away from home, etc. tends to increase
my frustrations . I might add here that I'm not saying I find Westerners
(esp. Australians) unfriendly, untrustworthy, etc. but I can't
change , the fact that I am a Malaysian Chinese and there are some
things that non-Malaysian Chinese can't understand when I say `I
ache here or there'.
Judging
from the experiences of these and other overseas students,
you too are going to meet many expected and unexpected problems
in your daily life: problems of loneliness, of finance, of climate
and of correct behaviour. Yet these are all part of the `education'
you have come to seek. And there will always be fellow students
and other people ready to help you.
eat
raw lettuce
relationships
with Australian
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