Exercise 3 solution

Using the Culture shock page's phases and timings (honeymoon in the first few weeks, negotiation around three months, adjustment at roughly 6 to 12 months, adaptation after that):

- Week 2: honeymoon. She finds the differences interesting, even romantic; the page says most people are fascinated in the first few weeks.
- Month 3: negotiation. Differences become frustrating. The page names language barriers, hygiene and traffic as possible causes of anxiety, anger and loneliness.
- Month 8: adjustment. Routines have formed, she solves problems more easily and negative reactions decline. Month 8 falls inside the page's 6 to 12 month range.
- After returning home: reverse culture shock (re-entry shock). The page says it can be harder than the original shock, because people idealise the past and wrongly assume home has not changed. Adaptation, the "bicultural" stage, may already have happened before she leaves, if she kept parts of her original identity while taking part comfortably in the host culture.

What the page allows you to claim: that these are Oberg's four phases and the typical timings it reports. What it does not allow: that she will certainly pass through all four on schedule. The page says a person may experience at least one of the phases, so some people may skip or blur them. The month figures are averages as the page reports them, not a timetable for one person; saying more than that would go beyond the source.

Note: the individual feelings in the timeline are illustrative and my own wording (check); the phase names and timings are the page's.