When people go to a different country for the first time, they experience culture shock(冲突)because everything is so different: the language, the food, the background, the social customs and others! When I first set foot in the City of Leeds, England, I found myself in a completely different culture from that of my own city, Guangzhou. For the first few days of my stay in Leeds I really knew about this so — called"culture shock".

One problem I had was with the food. Usually Chinese people are not used to the taste of British food, but the problem I actually had was with the names of the different kinds of food. When the wai—ter asked me what I wanted, all I could do was to point and say"I want this"or"I want that".

Something else which was different was the countryside. When I was sitting on the bus heading from Manchester International Airport towards Leeds, I saw through the window large fields of green grass on either side of the motorway(高速路). There were green grass and beautiful trees all the way. I could see sheep or horses eating grass in a free way. We may see such a scene in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. Because we Chinese use most of the land to grow crops. As we all know, China has the largest population in the world but very limited farming land. It supports about one fifth of the world's population. We can't afford to leave large areas of rich land unused.

Then, after a few days, I got over this shock and really enjoyed my stay in England.