This phase is characterized by optimism and great expectations.
You want to call home all the time because minor problems arise and you feel like an outsider.
You start to feel comfortable in a new community.
It’s a sitting-alone-in-your-room-and-feeling-that-no-one-understands-you stage, because you discover that you are still a foreigner.
You start to feel at home abroad and even adopt some new values, so this stage makes an exchange program really worth it!
