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Housing and Food Issues
Expect to adjust your lifestyle to
that of the host country. No matter your host country, you can
probably count on the following to be true:
Your dorm room, apartment, flat, or host family's house may not be as
large, or as modern, as it would be in the U.S.
You may be sharing a bathroom with more people than you are used
to.
The showers, sinks and toilets will work differently than they
do here.
Central heat and air conditioning are not necessarily standard.
There may be less choice and more redundancy than you are used
to in the cafeteria food.
There may not be a cafeteria.
Amenities that you have grown accustomed to at Virginia Tech may
not exist: a free bus line,
exercise facilities, convenience stores and vending machines
that are available 24/7.
You may not find low-fat, fat-free, low-cal, low-sodium,
skim, etc. products, and you may not
be able to tell how many calories or fat grams are in a product.
You may have limited choices of brands and types of products. Cereal and potato chips do not
need their own aisles in the supermarkets as they do in the U.S.
Refrigerator, freezer, and storage space may be limited, so
people do not stock up on food or
products or buy in bulk like we do here. People may go grocery
shopping on a daily basis
and buy only what they can carry home, since many people do not
depend on cars.
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