I feel better! Fever is gone, headache is veeery slow.
I visited with Claudina and angelo the Dhalai Lama Temple and Main Residence and today a bit far away his ummer residence with beautiful garden and temple...
I give u news soon. I have a lot of ideas to tell, write...i already did in some personal mails...some i like to collect to general point of view to post it here...
as well the comments, desscribtions on the pics (webalbum) i will add, complete...
Purple: by train Dehli-Hardiwar-Rishikesh (Laxman Julla)
Orange: by ""bus", Rishikesh to Dharamsala (McLeod Ganj)
Day number 13. sick again. mentally as well fiscally. Arrived in the middle of culture shock, now i am listening to my favorite austrian radio to cope :)
(http://fm4.orf.at/v2static/html/streaming/index.html?width=320&height=260)
hmmmm...where to start.
overall i feel shit. again. After the 15hours TORTURE bus ride!!! i am sick again.
The shaking bus caused me a concussion ( Gehirnerschuetterung). I have fever again. I hit my had so many times. U are thirsty but u cant drink because the "bus" does not stop. U cant sleep because its totally not comfortable, laud, shaking, smelling, need to go to toilet for hours...headache...but u cant do anything. nothing, just wait. fight against yourself. the crazy drivers stopped 3 times in 15 hours, 2 times for 7!!!minutes, i ordered a soup, but i had to leave before. so the gave me the half ready hot soup in a cup and i went back to shaking bus...u can imagine how much of it i ate...
well i better go to bed....i will continue maybe tomorrow. also pics.
In the following an excerpt of a definition, phases of culture shock (Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock#Phases_of_culture_shock):
The process of cultural adjustment, which is also known as the U-shaped curve of cultural adjustment, encompasses five distinct stages:
* Stage 1: The feeling of excitement and eagerness. This stage occurs before leaving to go to the new culture.
* Stage 2: The feeling that everything in the new culture is great. This stage occurs upon arrival to the new culture.
* Stage 3: The feeling of everything in the new culture is terrible.
* Stage 4: The feeling of adjustment. The stage where the visitor begins to feel comfortable and takes steps to become more familiar with the culture.
* Stage 5: The feeling that everything is fine. The stage where the visitor has adapted to the culture and in some ways is embracing it as their own.
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ohhh man!!!
ReplyDeletethis is hell!
pack some "lembas-bread" from the lord of the rings in your bag, dried, just for emergencias.
note: culture shock timeframes depend on relative "crude" differences between the 2 cultures concerned. Austria-Finland was easy and quick, right? Maybe you didn't even bother the culture shock here, as europe is quite balanced...
But well, I'd like to see how you will report on this Austria-India_countryside culture shock.
thx carlito for your thoughts. i exaggerate, when i state its real strong culture shock, no. also now i feel mental and physical helthy again. not that weak anymore. its hard to be sick when u are never sick. so i am more resistant again for culture shock, or let say of its impact.india is not nicaragua, nor central america, and i also changed. think on the good, positive experiences here..so the negative ones seems lees heavy...
ReplyDeletebut lets keep us talking about that... especially when it comes to your personal experience, as an BRA in europe... for sure its depends from which particular "social class", background u go to europe... i am eager to hear......greets and kiitos