Comments on: How China Will Change You

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:25:03 +0000

I stopped using swear words when I lived in Switzerland twenty-five years ago. They seemed pointless when no-one else could understand. You definitely live more inside your head when there’s nobody to talk to.

By: Erica

Erica — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:07:37 +0000

the time difference is hard. my sister is 5 hours behind in Honolulu and whenever she tries to talk with me I zone out.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:35:15 +0000

That sounds brutal. I think because you don’t have a lot of outer dialogue you have a lot more inner dialogue in foreign countries. It can be good for you or make you crazy. I think for me it’s doing both.

By: crackpipe

crackpipe — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:19:58 +0000

Dude, the inner dialogs of travelers for study or work in a language and culture barrier. I arrived very late at night a few hundred miles from my ultimate destination in Northern Germany during college, speaking a few German words only. No one met me, my schedule had been fucked up, it was a holiday about 0130 hours, and 48 hours remained to check-in where my apartment was reserved. No phone card or vehicle or bank card that I understood how to get cash with was on me and I slept on a train a late-night janitor eventually got me onto. By a few weeks later, I wanted to stay a couple years.