This is not a whinge! It’s an attempt to put some flesh on “culture shock” and what it means to lose competence in your own culture. Here’s how it looked on one morning of our first week ‘home’ in Australia. (The tenses are all over the place – because that’s […]
We found Arthur’s notebook from our earliest days in Tanzania this weekend. The words are faded now, and they are mainly just language notes but at the end are some prayers Arthur wrote from March-May 2013. We both remember this period as a rich and exciting time of learning, an […]
1. Culture shock is a weird term. I associate shock with surprise. There have been things I’ve been surprised by but not upset by and things I expected that I have still been upset by. When I have a negative feeling, I have this conversation with myself: ‘I don’t like […]
Meet Jesus at uni 