Challenges you face when you study abroad

Challenges you face when you study abroad                 

Life is full of experience and adventures. Life is full of up and down, sadness and happiness and failure and success. Studying abroad is self- discovering so the life becomes more exciting and meaningful. When you study abroad, I am sure you will face a number of challenges. But some challenges can be easier than others. I am originally not from Norway, but I have faced so many challenges, practically. So I am going to explain and write deeply about what kinds of challenges I have faced. For you, who want to study abroad, have to be prepared for before you apply so that it will be more easier when you travel there.

 Feeling like an outsider:

Regardless of what I was doing, where I came from and which country I am living in, I was feeling like an outsider. The environment you are living is unknown to adapt faster. Your site on the restaurant alone and no one knows you. You surrounded by the different unknown human faces that have a different aim I life even if you talk with them to find out who you can be with. The sense of being human is away for just a while. This is because you miss the human handshake, oral talking, known faces, and common talking of gangs. You miss your family, the delicious food of your mother, the tradition you used to do when you are together with families and friends and the game you play with your friends. You have missed all the traditions you used to do on holidays. All those important items of life are away. So it feels like, you are outside.

Communication problems and cultural differences:

The biggest issue you are going to face is the cultural way of communications. Every country in the world has different ways of communication styles or models. Some words can crash and some body languages may have the same meaning. For example, here I Norway we used to say «du or you», but you can’t say «you» to someone who is with you in my culture, even if you don’t know who is that person. It is like an order or warning and it is like a commandment. But it is usual to say «du» here. It can feel very isolated to live in a country where no one speaks your language. So this leads to homesickness. It is difficult to fit the culture and the unwritten rules of the countries. The written rules may you can read them in the media, but it takes times to fit and know it. There are unspoken rules which is a logical argument. For instance,  Alcohol is expensive in Norway, so when you go to a party, you bring your alcohol. Never take someone else’s alcohol at the party from the fridge. They don’t want you to drink their imported super expensive beer and be stuck with someone quite a lot cheaper than you picked up on the way over. Before 18 though, you can’t buy alcohol after 18 and If you enter someone’s house, take your shoes off. If we are going to a party in winter, we bring nice shoes to change into, like pumps, from our outdoor shoes. Those we call unwritten and unspoken rules are incredible challengeable to know.

Fewer motivations when you want do somethings:

The challenges of being alone lead an individual to have low motivation. The internal emotion disappears randomly. You struggle to figure out what might motivate you to achieve your goals. The reason that not allows people to be focused enough to complete their goals has a lot to say how are their feelings to achieve it. May some people feel unmotivated because they feel they are not welcome to the country and some feels uncomfortable with their environment and haven’t someone to talk with and get solutions of the daily problems as I did.

Mental weakness:

If you were a social person and now live alone abroad as a student, it is not easy. You are suffering of being alone and suffering from depressions. The motivation of mentality depends on what are you surrounded by and who you are with. You are surrounded by unknown people and takes time to be well known with the environment and adapt the new places. It is more easier to suffer from depression, stress, illness and loneliness. In addition your mentality are not prepared well to face those problems. These I have named above, leads the brain to disorder and unconditionally weak. What I mean is, it couldn’t be active and the creativity or awareness decrease.

In conclusion, studying abroad offers you a number of life experiences and you might develop cultural, personal, professional and economical awareness. Even thus, there is uncountable downsides and disadvantages. One thing that you have to realize is, life is an adventure and self- discovering is the most exciting and rewarding part of the adventure. So let`s develop physical and mental emotions together as I have done.