Category: Safe Haven
Hi. I am Nikos, i am from Cyprus but i study in England at the moment.
I miss my family, i miss my friends, the food etc but i am homesick in a strange way. I miss the sounds from home more than anything else. I miss sounds that i can't hear where i live at the moment.
You will probaply think i am strange by saying that but the sound i miss the most is the sound of the rooster in the mornings. Since i was a child i always remember listening to the rooster in the mornings because i live in a village in Cyprus and now it feels strange without it.
I know you might tell me to download rooster sounds from the internet so it will remind me of home but i can't. All the rooster sounds i found are not realistic at all.
I also miss the sounds of the birds from home. The house sparrow is a common bird in Cyprus and unfortunately in ~England is declining so i don't hear it often.
So what about you? In which ways you are homesick? What do you miss the most? Thanks for reading
Nikos
Yup, I know what you mean. I miss the feel of our hardwood floors under my feet and the smell of freshly mowed grass. I miss my dog scratching at my door trying to get in and the wind chimes we have hung on our porch. I like it up here at school, it's really nice, but there are just some things about home you can't get away from.
I don't blame either of you for missing things that remind you of home. What you miss which you don't realize is the feling of safety and security that was also present when at home which these sounds and sensations represent. I miss also things from my home like the smell of the jasmin in the summer evenings or the smell of the first rain in late august after months and months of dry heat. I miss the sounds of traffic in the distance at night when I would lie on my bed on a warm summer night with the window open listening to the sounds outside. Star
I miss Ireland.. as if an internal part of me has been removed without permission and I can still feel the gaping hole.
hey Its Casandra, yup i am home sick. i rally miss the Philippines. i wish i was there for even just one week. i like the weather, the food, and most important i miss the people in there. half of my friends and family are in there. but i'm here in the USL. so, cant do anything about it.
Thanks to all. It's good to know that some people can understand how i feel.
No. I have been in boarding school for five yours now and more and i never felt homesick. I love it there. But my friend is homesick and I once spent a wholoe weekend with her because she was terribly homesick. Was a great weekend though.
Homesickness is a terrible feeling no matter what you try to do nothing alleviates the ache..I had it the 1st time I came back from Ireland after visiting friends..it is strange, how you can love 1 country, but feel you belong in another...
Homesickness is a terrible feeling no matter what you try to do nothing alleviates the ache..I had it the 1st time I came back from Ireland after visiting friends..it is strange, how you can love 1 country, but feel you belong in another...
Homesickness is a terrible feeling no matter what you try to do nothing alleviates the ache..I had it the 1st time I came back from Ireland after visiting friends..it is strange, how you can love 1 country, but feel you belong in another...
Homesickness is a terrible feeling no matter what you try to do nothing alleviates the ache..I had it the 1st time I came back from Ireland after visiting friends..it is strange, how you can love 1 country, but feel you belong in another...
I don'T know I didn'T experience it but I can imagine it is horrible. I could never be homesick, because I hate it at home.
I was homesick the first few times I went to the state school for the blind for summer camp, and weirdly, once when I was just at another house. (When I really miss home, sometimes it's to where I really feel sick, but usually, I just want to call my family or just to see them.) Although I did turn out to like Austin (the city I would stay at), every time I had to stay there for a month/months at a time, I would always miss my home and family. But there are also times, I would miss Austin, not that I'd want to live there, but because there are certain things I got used to while staying there that I can't do here at home.
Leilani
Whenever I get homesick which isn't that often, I miss my family, and if I go abroad and I get homesick, I really miss English food, I crave it! I'd go anywhere to get it if I could.
I can't miss my family, so I don't know what it's like to be homesick. Farsick rather (living somewhere else, where there are nicer people).
Hi again.
I am still homesick but is not as bad as it was the first time i came to England to study 3 years ago.
That was because at the College i was nobody could speak Greek so i was missing speaking my language. They had internet there but listening to radio from home wasn't working very well. The only thing i had was a shortwave radio and i could get a Greek station but the signal was terrible it was fading in and out and you can imagine how bad it was. The next year they put windows 2000 on their computers before they had 98 and internet radio was working but still only until 10 we could use the computers after that they used to lock up.
Now i am at university and things are much better. I have got my laptop and i am connected on the university network from my room and i can get radio any time and also with MSN i can speak with my friends at home but i am still homesick.Nothing can replace home but i am glad that things are better now.
I miss..i don't really know what it's like to actually have a "home". I miss my freedom more than anything else. My friends. I miss Florida sometimes. I moved away from florida in 2001 to Toronto Canada. Then I moved away from my mother and have been from there to here to there again over and over.
Yes. I am homesick. Not all the time, but sometimes. Not just for home as in the place I was born and grew up, but I'm also homesick for people I love, seeing as people can represent home as much as places can.
Very interesting posts.
I live at home, but even when I go for vacations for a couple of weeks I don't get homesick. All I need is my braillenote, jaws, and a convenient computer system. I was in Hong Kong for three weeks of time last August and wasn't homesick for any reason. I was completely whole and happy. I wasn't homesick since I was eight. I understand homesickness though.
everytime i go to visit my parents at the home where i grew up, i get a feeling of home sickness.
Suzanne, I totally agree with that sentiment, and Goblin, believe me when I tell you I completely understand that massive gaping hole feeling. I too come from Ireland, and, whenever I step off the plane onto that land, I have a lift of heart that's hard to explain. The place feels right, the air smells rithg, the ground feels right under your feet, the people talk right... Oh, it's hard to describe. In one sense, I feel like I belong there, belong to the land, the country itself, but, in another, I am very much an outsider. As well as the country, I am homesick for the people there; that sense of closeness you get nowhere else, the feeling of welcome.
It's very difficult. Ask me now, and i'd tell you that i'd live there again in a heartbeat, but, ask me when i'm there, and i'll tell you that I can't wait to get back to good old England with its semi-regular public transport, and its poluted air.
Carly