You may find yourself withdrawing from people and activities around you. You may feel bored. You will begin to glamorize your home in your thoughts, remembering only the best things about it. You may find yourself getting irritated over minor things. You may need excessive amounts of sleep.
Culture Shock can cause intense discomfort, bitterness, resentment, homesickness, and depression.
As you think about comparisons between the two countries and their peoples, you might find yourself making value judgments, being critical because people here do not do things the way you do them, when your way seems obviously better. There is help for culture shock. When you come to the realization that you are an international student spending a portion of your life in the United States, that you are not a U.S. citizen and do not have to act like one, you will be coming to the end of your culture shock. Your sense of humor will gradually return, and you will have the ability to function in two cultures with confidence. If you expected all the women and men to look and act like those whom you have seen on television, you are bound to be disappointed.