My dearest Funky Chicken
How are you my crazy friend? I am so excited that you are coming here next year! We are going to have so much fun together!
Varsity is great, but one would imagine that after spending two years overseas, homesickness was a thing of the past. Not so for me though. After the initial excitement of orientation week, Grahamstown partying, meeting new friends, choosing new subjects, new everything actually, the homesickness beastie bit me on the bum!
Imagine my surprise when at the most inopportune moments I would start missing my insufferably grumpy mom. I’m sure you remember how she can be: perfectly docile and seemingly harmless, and then unexpectedly the tornado hits and chaos breaks loose, and you find yourself running for your life.
Other days I would crave a cuddly hug from my hairy dad.
I even missed wrestling around on the floor with my smelly “little” brother, something I didn’t’ get to do much whilst I was overseas, yet now that I’m here I miss it a lot!
After moping around for a while with my lip dragging on the ground I decided to take action and fight this beastie that was constantly lurking behind me, taking sharp nips at my behind at the most inappropriate times!
Getting involved in everything I possibly could was the best solution I could think of. The busier you are, the less time you have to think about missing your family and their strange quirks. So I started participating more actively in all those wonderful societies they persuaded me to sign up for at the beginning of the year. I volunteered myself to help out with functions and go on outings wherever possible and threw myself into making more friends with great zest.
Slowly but surely all this running around and socialising eventually tired the homesickness beastie out and he could no longer keep up with me, and left my rather tender bottom alone at last!
There you have it, how to fight off a homesickness beastie! I can’t wait to hear from you!
All my love
Gabi
How are you my crazy friend? I am so excited that you are coming here next year! We are going to have so much fun together!
Varsity is great, but one would imagine that after spending two years overseas, homesickness was a thing of the past. Not so for me though. After the initial excitement of orientation week, Grahamstown partying, meeting new friends, choosing new subjects, new everything actually, the homesickness beastie bit me on the bum!
Imagine my surprise when at the most inopportune moments I would start missing my insufferably grumpy mom. I’m sure you remember how she can be: perfectly docile and seemingly harmless, and then unexpectedly the tornado hits and chaos breaks loose, and you find yourself running for your life.
Other days I would crave a cuddly hug from my hairy dad.
I even missed wrestling around on the floor with my smelly “little” brother, something I didn’t’ get to do much whilst I was overseas, yet now that I’m here I miss it a lot!
After moping around for a while with my lip dragging on the ground I decided to take action and fight this beastie that was constantly lurking behind me, taking sharp nips at my behind at the most inappropriate times!
Getting involved in everything I possibly could was the best solution I could think of. The busier you are, the less time you have to think about missing your family and their strange quirks. So I started participating more actively in all those wonderful societies they persuaded me to sign up for at the beginning of the year. I volunteered myself to help out with functions and go on outings wherever possible and threw myself into making more friends with great zest.
Slowly but surely all this running around and socialising eventually tired the homesickness beastie out and he could no longer keep up with me, and left my rather tender bottom alone at last!
There you have it, how to fight off a homesickness beastie! I can’t wait to hear from you!
All my love
Gabi
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2 comments:
Hay Gabi
I feel as if we are already close friends for sharing the horrible homesickness beastie. As soon as you mentioned that you thought homesickness would be a thing of the past because you had travelled overseas, I truly realised that I am not alone in my suffering. I too ventured out into the world but evidently the homesickness beastie found his way into my suitcase and into my life at Rhodes. It is scary to witness how at very turn life renders you helpless and alone but simultaneously gives you courage to “suck it up” and “get over it” and we do! I am still not as proactive as you are but have also realised that homesickness can only be overcome by creating a new family at Rhodes. And you never know, you might actually find your hairy father, smelly brother and insufferable mom because Rhodes is full of crazy characters that I welcome with happy relief into my life.
Yours in unity to overcome the homesickness beastie!
Raisa
http://www.confessionsofacrazycouchpotato.blogspot.com
Hey Gaby
The homesickness beastie… yea I know it well. The evil little tick, sucking out your will to live and be young, leaving u an empty, shriveling husk, unable to think of anything more than Mommy.
I was so eager to come to varsity for so long. But it didn’t take long for the novelty of freedom to go flop and be replaced by the nipping, nagging, niggling “homesickness beastie”. It took all of a month before all I could think about was home.
As I’ve discovered, your advice stands true: get involved and keep busy. And know that you’re not along in the epic struggle.
So long sister
And here's to beating the beastie!!
Anthea
http://www.b4thecurtainfalls.blogspot.com/
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