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so they must felt the culture shock, and this was be demonstrated from the following questions. About 60% of the sample thought that they felt excited the first time they arrived in the UK while the first impression of 30% of the interviewees is normal. Those percentages illustrates the first stage of Brick (1991), the euphoria, and shows that most of the students thought that studying abroad is interesting and could be the beginning of their new lives when they were new in the UK. After the first impression, all sample found some problems such as local food (42%), local weather (53%), physically vulnerable (2%), economic problems (2%) and different religion, but according to the results of the seventh question, twothirds of the interviewees thought that the most difficult problem to deal with is language problem, 16% of the sample thought that is lack of life skills such as cooking or washing and the others thought that is living far from friends and family. The entire sample always missed their families and friends and was often in contact with them (everyday for 67%, 34 times a week for 18%, once a week for 13% and 23 times a month for only 2%). According to Brick (1991), they became being in the depression stage, they found that many things seem difficult, and began to feel lonely, frustrated and hopeless.Then, the students seemed to enter the third stage, the adjustment. The thirteenth question illustrates that the students tried to decrease intensity of culture shock and adaptation period, a few (22%) prepared conversation type depends on cultural background, a significant majority (47%) learnt background of new culture from media (. TV, newspaper) and some (31%) met people with different culture background especially during negotiating. And the data shows that, after some time later, students found some new and good situation such as almost all the students thought their English improved. That means they began to adapt to the local culture and thought this place is not so bad and wanted to