English Essay (Essay Sample)

English Essay
Name
Institution
Introduction
It goes without a say that every newcomer has different feelings, attitude and experience in their new destination and a place of stay. Learning fast is one thing and adopting the new ways is yet another thing. Every new comer usually takes a great limp of faith to get to understand the new place and the new culture in order to manage getting along pretty well (Lambert, 2012). .Culture shock has in many occasions been the main problem of the new comer. I was a new comer in a crime black spot in Soweto South Africa. It actually can be compared to the writer who went to Westlake for his first time and sees strange things he had never seen before (Gorlach, 1999). The writer who went to Westlake gets shocked when he realizes that unlike where he came from, there were cases of crime and he had to get along and play the games in the multipurpose courts. It is a huge shock to me that I get to a place and mingle freely with people who are criminals. As a new comer I would feel like a stranger because this is a different environment with a different culture.
This aspect reminds me of how strange I felt when I saw a man snatching a woman her handbag and running away scot free. I found myself screaming when other people felt and even thought that it was the order of the day in Soweto. Where on earth would you just rob in broad day light and go unnoticed? This to an extent left a lot to be desired. I was really culture shocked. There are two relevant things here that are important to mention (Gorlach, 1999). Every person is used to where they live and when they get to a new environment, they either comply with the new environment’s undertakings or they feel stranger. I appreciate the writer’s feeling because it makes me feel all was alright and normal.
Transition is necessary, the writer gets back to Lo g and would like to get playing in the courts as he used to in Westlake. In a short period of time many crimes are reported and the writer seems to be getting shocked at this moment (Lambert, 2012). This was to an extent of clearing all the cars that were initially parked in the court. He got back to the court and found it empty. That people were raped and assaulted was normal to the region while as the writer exposes it, it is a shock to him. In fact the crimes are underline to show how much strange they are to the writer. Objectively, this reminds me of how shocked I was when in another incidence in Soweto a man raped a woman again in broad day light without the police intervention. The man went scot free again (Lambert, 2012). This is comparable to the Pop mentioned in the story who has the guts to make stories and talk of the police even after he escaped with crime. The police here are also racists because they only stopped the black guy named pop.
The writer makes me really understand my experience when he says that the players never wanted to mingle with him. At one point, they even insult him and call him names. Funny enough they smoke and do alcohol in the sports ground, the courts. Drugs to me and my country were prohibited. When I went to Soweto, (Miles, 2008) it was the order of the day. I could not get along with people because I was never used to mingling with those who smoke nor drink but here all this was as normal as the sun rise and sun set.
The turns of events come in when the writer gets used and gets along with these players and is consumed into their culture. In fact he joins a team with them and plays basket ball against the Korean team where they finally failed to emerge. They even talk of the team having shortcomings which they had to hide in order to not to be seen as lo...