This week in class we played a card game, and we weren't aloud to talk. At first it was fine with our original groups; we all knew the rules and we didn't have a hard time following them. But once we switched groups without knowing that the other people had different rules, it got really confusing. Some people just tried to adapt to the other groups rules and others tried to argue that their customs were right. It was a good activity to experience something similar to culture shock. I've never been in another country so I've never experienced having people do things really different from the way I do. Cultures can be so differnet and, just like in the game, people adapt to the new cultures in different ways. I never realized how hard it can be to accept a new culture and how much culture affects our every day lives. Sal talked about how he went to Japan and how different the bathrooms are there. I don't know how I would react if I were put in a situation like that, but I would probably think that they were crazy if I went somewhere with toliets on the floor!