It was a rainy Saturday morning in Adelaide. Two men were waiting in a car in the CBD of Adelaide outside the University Accommodation on Grote Street. I was one of them, the other one was my housemate, Richard. We were waiting for Maddy, a girl from Newcastle, UK. My housemate did us a favor and gave us a lift to the airport on that sad-looking Saturday. The airport was the meeting point on that Saturday for a group of 5 people (Lin, Maddy, Orion, Jamie and I).

Why I’m in Australia is probably not a big secret and you came up with your very own idea based on my previous blog posts. However, I did not mention in any way what I’m doing here and what courses I took at the University. Cognitive Science It is part of our curriculum at UCM to take 2 courses out of every concentration. That means for me that I have to take 2 courses in philosophy and art although I my main concentration is science.

  You know everyone tells you that you will experience a culture shock once you move, travel or temporarily happen to be in a different culture than you are used to. I can safely say that I was prepared for it since I already had the pleasure of experiencing it back in 2010 when I spent some time in the Philippines. However, I wasn’t prepared. How can you be prepared for something if you never experienced it?