Interesting Things to Look Forward to After Studying Abroad Update

Filed in Articles, Study Abroad by on March 25, 2022

When you get there, it’s perfectly natural to experience what’s known as reverse culture shock, feeling out of place, or even depressed when returning from studying abroad. You have the feeling of staying back there when it’s time to return. But returning home is not all bad,  here are some great things to look forward to after studying abroad.

Below, we have provided 20 interesting things to look forward to after studying abroad.

20 Interesting Things to Look Forward to After Studying Abroad

1. Make Friends from Around the World

The university you choose for your international studies will likely have a large community of students both from the local area and all around the globe.

If you take full advantage of this opportunity, you could graduate having established lasting friendships with people based in many different countries great for future trips, and also a good basis for an international professional network.

Spending time studying abroad can provide an excellent opportunity to make new contacts and build invaluable relationships with peers from around the world.

2. Introducing People to New Music

Have a look through YouTube, Apple Music or Pandora to find some music you first heard when you were studying abroad.

3. Seeing Your Study Destination in a Film

It might be a familiar place you used to go to, a famous monument or coffee shop you visited-one-time-possibly. You’ll start noticing places you’ve been to in every film, TV, and documentary.

4. Reading a Book Set in Your Destination

Visit the nearest book store or library. Spend time and have a browse. Find a book set in the country you now know very well and when you read it, you will be able to picture the scene in a way you never could before.

5. Become Truly Independent

The experience of university is, for most new students, a steep learning curve in gaining independence. But studying abroad takes that a whole step further, challenging students to develop as individuals.

6. Change the Way You Think

Studying abroad may well change the way you view all kinds of things which you’d previously taken for granted.

Studying abroad provides an opportunity to expand one’s field of view and helps one to understand and analyze problems and phenomena from a longer-term, worldwide perspective

Moreover, long-term experience in other cultures has a tendency to help one think objectively about oneself and one’s home country, tolerate differences, and recognize and appreciate diversity.

7. Develop your Language Skills

For many international students, studying abroad is a chance to develop language skills, either through studying in a second language or by practicing the language spoken locally.

A growing number of courses around the world are taught in English, particularly at the graduate level, and of course, proficiency in English has many applications across all kinds of careers. But indeed any additional language skills are an asset.

Language skills obtained while studying abroad will always be beneficial to the student and their home country in both the short- and long-term.

8. Travel More Widely

Studying abroad is a chance to travel more widely around the world region in which you’re based. You, will not just be tied to the university or city you are studying in.

You will also have the time and opportunity to travel within and around that country, country-hopping during holidays and weekends is also possible, depending on where you are based.

9. Get Ready for an International Workplace

Students are more open to new knowledge and expertise when abroad, and that knowledge is often more easily applicable and adaptable to situations requiring international interaction; thus one can expect to be more competitive in today’s era of globalization.

Employers are looking to graduates to have international experience either by studying or working abroad.

Now there are many more opportunities to study and work abroad, or stay on and work afterward. Anyone who can put on their CV that they studied abroad is at a great advantage in terms of impressing future employers.

At a very basic level, it will give you something to talk about in an interview.

But much more importantly it will prove to your potential employer that you can stand on your own two feet, that you can fit in when placed in different environments, and that you are resourceful and have initiative.

10. That Food You Just Couldn’t Get Abroad

Perhaps it’s your mum’s roast dinner or your favorite chocolate bar you couldn’t find anywhere. Whatever it is you’ve wanted to eat, enjoy it as soon as you get home.

11. Cooking Meal for Friends and Family

Perhaps you perfected a good meal abroad, or were taught to make something very delicious; cooking a meal from your study destination is a great way to share your experience with people.

12. Handing Over the Souvenirs

Whether it was on the first day or the last, you will have picked up some things you thought your loved ones would like.

It could be a tacky trinket or something more meaningful. Their reaction will be worth coming home for.

13. Looking Through Photos

Most of them have probably gone onto Instagram and Facebook already. But you can look through them all again.

Perhaps pick the best ones for a college or if you’re creative, paint a large version of your favorite to hang up.

14. Meeting Someone From That Country in Your Country

It might take weeks, months or years, but one day you will bump into someone from your study destination.

It’s a fun reminder of your time away and a good chance to be a good host, give them some tips about your home.

15. Sofa-surfing in Other Countries

You now have many friends in another country, or perhaps many countries. This will come in very handy for cheap holidays and local tips.

16. Planning Your Next Trip

You have now been bitten by the travel bug and it is very difficult to get rid of itchy feet. The only cure is another trip.

I’m a firm believer that you can plan a trip on any budget, even if it’s to go and visit someone you know in another town for a few days.

17. Rediscovering Your Home Country

It will probably seem boring to you now. But think about it, your home country is somebody else’s study abroad destination.

Think about where you would take someone if they visited: the biggest tourist attraction, the best restaurant in town, or a road trip.

18. Enjoying Your New-found Confidence

You learned to live and study in another country, you did an amazing thing! You are now more confident than you have ever been, so do something that would have scared you before.

Perhaps it’s going to the cinema by yourself; perhaps it’s asking out that person you had a crush on for years, or perhaps turning them down.

19. Having an Excuse for More Celebrations

Whether you celebrated lots of festivals abroad, you enjoyed another culture’s festivities. Why not get friends and family together to celebrate it at home the next time it comes around?

20. The Rest of Your Life

Studying abroad is an amazing part of the university experience, and you will remember it forever. But when it is done, try and take the enthusiasm you had when you were abroad into the next part of your life, whether that is further study, work, or even further travels.

These are the 20 Interesting things to look forward to after Studying Abroad.

CSN  Team.

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