16. It’s Hard Making New Friends
So you’re in a new country and you don’t know any of the locals and haven’t made any new friends. However, you’re a friendly person so it shouldn’t be too difficult, right? Well, pair that in with the fact that you might not speak the local tongue and you may find yourself in a bit of a pickle. “In Europe, people tend to have made most of their friends by the time they graduate university,” Laurent Gorse, a Stanford graduate writes.