Annabella CP #2

Date: 07/25/21

Topic discussed: Culture shock and Tallahassee homesickness 

Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: Today Sara and I talked about when she first got to Tallahassee. We reminisced over the first time we met and how she was outside in the pouring rain and walked into the wrong apartment to find a shirtless boy and his dog. She told me that when she first went out she remembered being shocked at how the girls dressed at the clubs in America versus in Austria. It was interesting to know because after, she told me that she realized how much she felt judged back home when she came back. She recalled her first night out with friends and said that she felt judged by other when she wanted to let her hair down and dance. She told me that she felt like her friends were criticizing her and how in America no one cared how she dressed or what she did. She also mentioned that her first week back she felt like she couldn't be herself. Still, she said that she was very thankful for what her time at FSU taught her.