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/^t/The first stage in the adjustment cycle takes place before we even leave our own country. The moment we learn we are going to travel abroad, we start preparing ourselves for it - psychologically. We envisage that the country of our destination is going to be different from our own. We imagine what it looks like, what the people are like, and how they will perceive us - the strangers. We wonder what sort of cuisine they have, and how the spend their free time. We start adjusting to the other culture before we even come into contact with it, thus lessening the shock we experience on arriving at the foreign country: an Eskimo coming to Nigeria would have been in a great shock indeed if hadn't known about the differences of temperature in the two countries beforehand!