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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