I’ve been in Australia for three and a half years, yeah, for some international students, it is a long time for studying overseas. Luckily, I have the chance going back to my country - Taiwan - once a year because the summer vacation in Australia is relatively long and as well as I miss my family amd friends back home. Funny how, everytime I went back to Taiwan, I always had internally contradictory feeling to my country. In one way, I could have any Asian food which I’ve been missing so much anytime, and I could spend time hanging out with my friends and my family instead of making phone calls. In another way, I didn’t feel comfortable being in Taiwan, I guess it’s because I already got used to the life style in Australia. Even people were talking in my native language - Mandarin, I still couldn’t join the  conversation easily because they were talking about things I wasn’t familar with, laughing at some jokes I no long feel funny anymore. 

However, I do also have some sort of problems in English (you can easily find it as you are reading my blog). As what Juicy Day wrote,

"I got a serious problem of cross-culture communication. The language certainly is the main barrier. I mean not only in the situation that I have to communicate with people in the tutorial or lecture in English, but also in the situation that I use Mandarin to talk to people from different areas."

both cultural differences and suficiency of English causing some communication difficulties, or even misunderstandings sometimes. But, I have to say: thanks to those Australian classmates and teachers, your enormously patient do help us (internatinal students) a lot! I appreciate your kindness and friendliness.