When I used to hear about the topic "culture shock" I thought, that it doesn't really matter and I thought if I travel abroad for a long time, I will never experience this culture shock and that it will be easy to adapt to the new culture and atmosphere. But anyway, when I arrived to Germany last year to start my voluntary year and spent the first couple of weeks, I realised that I was totally mistaken and that culture shocks really matter!! cultural differences It was very i

“If I had known this would be so great, I would have tried it out a little earlier”, that’s right, even though it hasn’t been easy being away from my family and it is a bit out of my comfort zone, and although it has been a sacrifice feeling sometimes very lonely and not understood, it has definitely been worth it. Yes, it has been worth it, worth the people, the moments, the laughs and the places. Of course, feeling emotions (sometimes all of them at once) is part of being h