The Shock of the Strange, the Shock of the Familiar: Learning from Study Abroad

Authors

Diane Levy, University of North Carolina - Wilmington

Date of this Version

Spring 2000

Comments

Published in the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 1:1, Spring/Summer 2000. Copyright © 2000 by the National Collegiate Honors Council.

Abstract

I began writing this as I sat in a borrowed office in the outskirts of London on a strange computer with an unfamiliar keyboard. I blundered my way from my guest house after riding two buses and walking several blocks, London A to Z in hand. Cup of white tea and biscuits by,my side, I find that this is not a bad setting for writing about the adjustments of study abroad.