When travelling you are often mislead by rendering what you are experiencing
through the prism of your own culture. You think you are getting it, while
you are actually "misunderstanding" what is happening around. With
some time, you realise that you are out of touch, that you have had wrong interpretations...
Actually, you start understanding that you are "not understanding"
at all. This is the cultural shock. With much more time, you hopefully end
up making sense, you are "understanding" somehow.
Now you can get back home, where, in fact, you trip will continue as you own
surrounding might seems slightly different now!