Cultural Crash

Living in the homestay family is the direct way to experience the different culture, different customs. Having been with my homestay family for more than two weeks, I find sharp differences between our lifestyle and theirs, which will be illustrated as follows.
First of all, we have different diet. The breakfast is almost the same, bread, milk or coffee. however, the lunch is really different. In China, we seldomly have sandwiches, which we have to eat here everyday. It's really awful. Sometimes I feel sick when I think of sandwiches. But my homestay hostess said one day that the sandwich is beautiful in Australia. Oh, I cannot stand it. I swear that I'll not touch sandwich any more when I'm back home. But I have to have it for lunch in Australia, otherwise I 'll buy something to eat. Sometimes I do buy something different to have for lunch.
In addition, Clothes washing. In China, we usually wash socks and underwears separately. But here, my hostess puts all the stuff in the washing machine. Cissy talked with the hostess about washing our underwears separately for several times, finally she agreed. But on last rainy
Sunday, our clothes were outdoors hanging on the line. We wanted to get them indoor, but the hostess declined our request. She said the rain water is very clean and could rinse the clothes again. But in China, this kind of things will never happen, only except that nobody at home collects the clothes indoors.
Moreover, we cannot help other boarders to do something without the hostess's permission. Last Sunday, two teenagers from China came to live with us. They are very polite and timid. They are very quiet and afraid of talking with the hostess. Last night, they told us that they were not accustomed to drinking cold milk from the fridge in such cold weather. So we told them that they could heat the milk in the micro oven. Then Cissy showed them where the micro oven was. At this time, the hostess asked Cissy who told them about the micro oven. She said this is her home and she is the mother. If they don't know something or want to do something, they can ask her. We should not do the things like this. Maybe she is right. I don't know.
The ways of doing things are quite different between us Chinese and Australians.