How an individual copes with the stressors associated with being a sojourner has been given a central role in majoracculturation models. Coping in a new cultural context can be described as a series of ups and downs, an ongoing process oftrial and error, a seemingly never ending, cyclical, and iterative process. This article extends the discourse on how copingaffects cultural adaptation, and ultimately the development of cross-cultural competencies. We use two cases to illustrate andcontextualize the coping process within a model of Cross-National Cultural Competence (CNCC: P. Heppner, K. Wang, M.Heppner, & L.-F.Wang, in press). Future areas of coping research are identified to extend the cultural adaptation literature andthe development of cross-cultural competencies.