• Experience your new home. Through this first week, and throughout your international adventure, explore your surroundings. Get a feel for the place, and make your first diary entry. Stroll the streets; visit local museums and other tourist attractions; read the local newspaper in a park, and watch the people go by.
Find a friendly café or tea shop and just hang out. Your enhanced business acumen will move you up after you’ve moved abroad—but don’t underestimate the value of a good time and lots of personal growth, too. Have fun because you’re going to work hard!
One of the best ways to get a real feel for a city is to take a run early in the morning. I love watching cities wake up, as the markets and shopping stalls are set up and the streets slowly fill with people. Once a city starts to hustle with its routine, it’s more difficult to look behind the scenes and see how it ticks. —Barbara, strategy and innovation consultant
Everyone is in the same boat when they arrive. Everyone goes through essentially the same acclimatization process. It can be done. It just takes time. Getting angry and complaining about the situation—regardless of how chaotic it is—will not change a thing. —Mary, FAA