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I Got a Culture Shock Coming Back Home
How it felt coming home after half a year in Africa
It is really weird to think about it, but I got a serious culture shock coming home after a few months travelling through Africa. While other people get a culture shock when travelling away from their home town. Usually when visiting a less developed or less civilized country. I got it the other way around.
It was anyway a weird time in my life. I finished studying, but didn’t want to start working yet. Because I didn’t know what. I never knew what I wanted to become. What I wanted to study.
I didn’t know what I want in life. But during my last two years studying, a dream started growing in my head. It was about the African continent. About travelling. Learning new cultures and meeting different people.
And when I was done studying I still didn’t know what I would like to do for a living. But I knew I wanted to go and see „Africa“. Whatever part of it I would see I didn’t care.
And so I did go. I spent almost five months in Ghana working as a volunteer in a school. I was living in a house made of mud and slept on a mattress on the floor. No electricity. No running water. No luxuries.
I was teaching kids who often came hungry or sick to school. It was a difficult…
