This is a book about one person´s experiences, about the intrigue, the confusion, and the culture shock of living in a foreign country or an unfamiliar culture. It is a kaleidoscope of what could happen, or what did happen, when our life-long value system and our commonplace expectations are upended, and we are forced by circumstances we can´t control to make decisions we don’t understand. We are forced to choose among compromise, evasion, defiance, or some version of all three, and we begin to expect the unexpected.