book resume What are the main reasons, which pushes a man to move outside his own country? For sure, job, money and love. As the man in the Questura said, Chris leaves his beloved Australia for the best one: love. Fallowing his girlfriend Daniela in the wild, wild Southern Italy, Chris realises that they have lived in completely worlds apart. The awareness of these differences leads the writer to experience the fundamental steps of what is called “culture shock”, which is the personal disorientation an individual may feel in an unfamiliar place. In the very first days, everything looks interestingly different. Chris tries healthy and satisfying meals (as he said, “my sandwiches days are far off”); he relaxes on the wonderful gold sand beaches, he acquaints himself with the weird local habits (the afternoon siesta, which breaks the day in two, “2 days in one”). This stage of apparently perfection is commonly called the honeymoon period. Nevertheless, as everybody knows, not all that glitters is gold. In fact, as one goes further, the writer leaves behind the former positive impressions and starts feeling uncomfortable while relating with the “unconventional” locals’ behaviour. He is used to respecting laws, time and justice; these are concepts, which are completely out of the reach of the people Chris finds on his way. However, it does not matter how much different one is: after spending months in a foreign country, he/she will surely look and behave more and more like a local. Indeed, this is what happens to Chris: he slowly gets used to the ways of thinking and behave of Italians. Overall, the natural process of culture shock leads the writer from the amusement of the new situation to a state of embarrassment, annoyance and, in a certain point, of cultural isolation. Nevertheless, like a circle, the culture shock process ends with the perfect integration of the writer in a not-anymore-new society: Chris manages to overcome his limits and he becomes one thing with his new world.