Re-entry

Recommended books

     *Some available for Kindle purchase or available in the TF bodega in Panecillo

Reentry Handbooks and Resources Online:

• Foundation for Sustainable Development-http://www.fsdinternational.org/sites/default/files/public/WELCOME%20BACK%20Handbook.pdf
•  Diversity Abroad: http://www.diversityabroad.com/parents/reverse-cultural-shock
  

• Middlebury: http://www.middlebury.edu/international/sa/returning/reentry_resources 

• Global Links: http://www.globalinksabroad.org/for_alumni/reverse_culture_shock/ 

• Traveller’s Library: http://www.anyphone-anytime.com/Travellers_Library.htm 

• GenXPat, book: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/-/9781931930239/chapter-11dot-reverse-culture-shock/179 

• Seattle University: http://www.seattleu.edu/abroad/Inner.aspx?id=78330 

• Students Abroad.com: http://www.studentsabroad.com/handbook/reverse-culture-shock.php?country=General 

• University of Florida: http://www.ufic.ufl.edu/sas/ReverseCulturalShock.html 

• Indiana University/Perdue University: http://new.ipfw.edu/offices/iss/international-programs/returning.html 

• University Studies Abroad Consortium: http://usac.unr.edu/information/alumni/re-entry-and-reverse-culture-shock.aspx 

• Gustavas Adolphus College: https://gustavus.edu/cice/reentry/ReverseCultureShock.php 

• MIT: http://newcomersguide.mit.edu/ng/culture-shock 

• CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/08/24/cultural.reentry/index.html 

• Oregon State University: http://oregonstate.edu/international/studyabroad/students/return/home/shock 

• University of CA, Davis: http://caps.ucdavis.edu/resources.html 

• TEFL Worldwide: http://www.happycatstefl.com/general-advice/5-tips-for-dealing-with-reverse-culture-shock/ 

• Northwestern University: http://www.northwestern.edu/studyabroad/returnees/adjusting-to-life-at-home/reverse-culture-shock-and-re-entry-strategies.html 

• Smith: http://www.smith.edu/studyabroad/returning_challenges.php 

• Academic Programs International: http://www.apistudyabroad.com/alumni/re-entry-information-2/ 

• X-expats: http://www.x-expats.com/reverse-culture-shock.html 

• Vagabondish: http://www.vagabondish.com/how-to-survive-reverse-culture-shock/ 

• Studentsabroad.com: http://www.studentsabroad.com/handbook/adjustments-and-culture-shock.php?country=brazil 

• Global Semesters: http://www.globalsemesters.com/reverse-culture-shock.html 

• Cornell: http://www.isso.cornell.edu/about/issonews.php#3b 

• Matador: http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/5-things-not-to-do-after-returning-from-abroad/ 

• My Global Education: http://www.myglobaleducation.com/article/v/16121/5-ways-handle-reverse-culture-shock/ 

• Unite for Sight: http://www.uniteforsight.org/cultural-competency/module11

• Spanish Studies Abroad: http://www.spanishstudies.org/ReturningHome-id-448.html

Tips for your Friends and Family

• University of Denver: http://www.du.edu/intl/abroad/pdf_docs/twelvetips_parents.pdf

• Foundation for Sustainable Development: http://www.fsdinternational.org/sites/default/files/public/Handout%20for%20Friends%20and%20Family.pdf

• Diversity Abroad: http://www.diversityabroad.com/parents/reverse-cultural-shock

  
  

Blogs

• Reentry: Finding the Heart of Home- http://melibeeglobal.com/2013/01/re-entry-finding-the-heart-of-home/

• http://wakeupanddance.com/tag/reverse-culture-shock/
  

• http://altonline.blogspot.com/2012/03/reverse-culture-shock.html

• A woman and her family’s return to the US after seven years in the UK: http://reversecultureshock.com/about/ 

• Why No one Likes the Friend Who Studied Abroad: http://thestudyabroadblog.com/blog/2011/08/16/reverse-culture-shock/

   

  
  

Videos/Vlogs

• FizzyLemon (Steve) is very funny, but relatable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtsQYMxgk8

• University of Montana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAJHF4bn6g

• Some students present their hardest parts and what it was like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSVyRKI1nrw

• 1 of 4 series in RCS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjhYt2DkTs&feature=plcp

• 2 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uuYD5G2Wkk&feature=plcp

• 3 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTF2bRFSALQ&feature=plcp

• 4 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72OhEvHxyI&feature=plcp

• One young man’s vid of his return from Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOsuLT_dIHs

• A young woman’s adjustment to US culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1OdYyIU2Y

• A student’s first reverse culture shock experience after spending the Fall 2011 Semester in Perugia, Italy. She takes her video out into the grocery store: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-25hG-cM4tA

• The Journey Back from Exchange: Go Global: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5QMZNhdms

• Novelty wears off

  
  

• Escape and withdrawal

  • Avoid seeing people

  • Don’t accept invitations

  • Increase in sleep

• Anxiety

• Resistance to adjustment

• Reacting to things or noticing how

• home doesn’t measure up (Storti)

• Critical of home country (Storti)

• Mood swings

• Idealizing time abroad
  

• See how your changes now set you apart
  

• Feel misunderstood and/or alienated
  

• Unsure you should have come home

• Tired
  

• Lower immune resistance
  

• Loss of appetite or binge eating
  

• Overwhelmed with responsibilities of starting over
  

• Numb
  

• Miss speaking your foreign language
  

• Pace of life
  

• Feeling of helplessness (Brown/Montemurro)

• Restlessness
  

• Reverse homesickness
  

• Boredom
  

• Inability to focus
  

• Uncertainty and confusion

• Call or write to your host family

• Skype, email, FB, Google voice, texts via Skype or your own phone

• You can send letters for your host family to Tandana in Ohio, and we will deliver them when we have the opportunity.  Please mark clearly who the letter is for.
  

• Counseling services

• Interact with speakers of the language you spoke while abroad
  

• Make scrap books or post pictures

• Stay in touch with alums and friends from your time abroad

• Share reflections on your experience and browse reflections from others in the Tandana community
  
• Stay engaged through social media
• Tandana's Facebook page
• Tandana Staff Facebook group
• Tandana's LinkedIn page
• Tandana on Twitter
• Watch Tandana videos on YouTube
  
• Write a post for Tandana's blog and follow it to see other posts.
  

• Professional and academic inclusion of experience

• Give presentations at local schools

• Do trainings or presentations for local study abroad office or schools on the country, your experience, etc.

• Incorporate your experience into your resume

• Offer former TF volunteers and interns the opportunity to work and volunteer with you in the future

• Join the TF or another international organization's board if a position is available

• Seek out opportunities to use skills and remain connected with TF
• Consider coordinating future programs
• Special projects that come up - Tandana can always use volunteers to work on various things.  Share your ideas for projects to take on or skills such as:
• Translation
• Graphic design
• Outreach
• Video production
  
• Recruit future volunteers and interns.  Your help in spreading the word makes a big difference.
  

• Be a mentor to new TF interns and volunteers as they prepare to go

• Write in a journal, blog, or an article for a paper or other publication

• Volunteer to work with immigrants or refugees from the area you lived in