| As a result of the ever increasing exchange of goods and information between nations and peoples of the world intercultural contact is becoming much more common and accepted. One result is that individuals are seeking new experiences, travelling to different countries and living for extended periods in cultures very different from those they were raised in.;The purpose of this research is to present an account of one individual's long term experience of a foreign culture. The result is a chronicle outlining the participant's perception and reassessment of self, academics, culture and cultural dislocation and his resulting attempts to readjust, and re-enter his original cultural framework.;The work takes the form of an autobiographical memoir in novelized form, using interpretive research as its methodology. It derives important observations from the experiences of the individual applicable to generalized human themes. The last chapter of the work deals with these implications. |
