This article is a study to describe how nursing students feel, understand, adapt to the unfamiliar culture and environment and to find main themes and core categories of their experiences of nursing training at an overseas hospital. That is, this is a descriptive and inductive study on their experiences and meanings of foreign cultural contact through analyzing their behaviors and statements. The subjects are five junior female nursing students who got the 4 week nursing training at a hospital in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia. They experienced overseas hospital for the first time of their life. It is also their first experiences to meet foreign medical and nursing personnel and to take care of foreign people. At the beginning when they experienced unfamiliar African culture and environment, they felt afraid, They felt distance from African medical and nursing personnel, and noticed the big differences in nursing practices. But gradually through experiencing Ethiopian culture and environment, they opened their mind to the locals, felt the expansion of their perspective and thoughts, got the mind that they can advance into the world, and enlarged their dream. By using the phenomenological methods of Colaizzi(1978), major categories of their experiences and meanings were formulated into four; the First Category, fears come in flocks: the Second Category, active trying of local life and practices: the Third Category, feeling comport: the Fourth Category, finding the change of their cultural competence. Our study shows that the growth stage is also an important final stage. Since existing materials do not establish the growth stage, further research is required to decide whether the growth stage is a basic stage or specific to our research.