A Year Abroad

Ilmoittautua, sitoutua johonkin

To sign up for (a year abroad)

Aliarvioida

To underestimate (the winters)

Sopeutua, mukautua

To adapt (to a new place)

1. What is the text mainly about? — One person's year abroad and the slow shift from feeling foreign to feeling at home
2. What had the narrator's experience of travel been before this year? — Nothing longer than school trips and a two-week seaside holiday
3. In the second paragraph, why did the narrator tell nobody about counting the months until home? — Because speaking about the homesickness would have made it feel real