Foreign student integration interview & report

With the development of the international moves, there is more and more people who choose to go abroad for professional or many other reason. People seem really interested in other culture; they are open-minded and are looking for different way to improve their knowledge and to get different way to live and to see things. It is interesting to understand what are the stages of adaptation the people experience when they go abroad. Indeed, it could be quite difficult and unnatural to try acting like people use to do in the country you have moved in when your usual practice are very different. And if you keep on living like in your country, it might get your integration more difficult. We have interviewed two foreign students in order to understand the process of integration in a new country. Based on what we have eared, we have identified a few steps in the integration process which we are going to present. First of all, there is the open-minded of people as a preliminary to an easy integration. Then, there is the first impression of the new country. The third one would be the adaptation to the habits and to the way of doing thing. Finally, there is some cultural differences which still stay.
We have talked to Arash Moghani who is Canadian and to Gahtan Aziz who is from Tanzania.
Gahtan is in GGSB and is currently following the BIB course. He is from Dar es Salaam which is not the capital (Dodoma is) and he speaks Swahili (same language as Kenya). It’s his first experience in France, he has only been here for a couple of month but he went to England and Denmark. He also went to Malaysia to study in a University because the Tanzanians’ one are not as famous as the one he has been to. He told us about the differences between the way to practice sport, the classes, the party and also the main cultural differences. We talk about the lack of relation between GGSB and ESC.

First of all, on the integration