Homesickness

Over the Summer, I stayed with my best friend in Missouri. We had an exciting time on their boat. I learned how to play skip-bo, which can be very competitive. It was the first time I’d been so far from home without my parents. Spending time on the boat, playing cards and getting over my malady, in the hot Missouri sun, was one of the best times of my life. We went on the boat whenever it didn’t rain. One day, we decided to go tubing. Overall, it was great until the inner tube exploded, and…

My first year was plagued with homesickness. I was nine, in a foreign country with one person I knew, my sister. My older sister: outgoing, brilliant, everyone’s favorite. She dropped me the first day. I was shy, withdrawn, and alienated. I had never been away from home for more than a few days, let alone three weeks. What made my experience so difficult was not just the homesickness but the extreme physical demands I faced. Camp Ak-O-Mak (Ontario, Canada) is not a traditional camp. It was the…

Did you know people have died from nostalgia? In 1688 people were dying of homesickness. Doctors treated nostalgia like they were treating rheumatism. Everything changed in 19 centuries when the government acted to the current rampant outbreak of nostalgia and started encouraging people to be emotionally stronger. Nowadays, people see homesickness as not a big deal. Personally, I see homesick as nothing more than the pain of leaving home. I left my country four years ago, and I must admit it…

become independent and learn how to live without the support system of their family. A downside to this quick transition is that very often after the first two or three weeks students report experiencing homesickness, which is associated with loneliness (Turley, 2006). The feeling of homesickness; however, does subside as they continue and fall into their college routine and it can give the student a better appreciation for their family. Another…

Homesickness maybe the most common of such hindrances. All the interviewees showed evidence that they miss the cultures that they came from. A research by Karin Tochnov, Lisa Levine and Amritha Sanaka (2010) showed statistical evidence that international students from India had a very different experience of homesickness then the students from USA. The result of the study unsurprisingly showed that Indian students suffer from homesickness more than American students,…

The United States is often portrayed as the land of great opportunity. Anything can be accomplished as long as one works hard enough to do so. Many people believe the prosperity of immigrants is tied to how completely they embrace this ideal of the American Dream. While often thought of in a modern context, this idea is seen in older works as well. In Willa Cather’s My Ántonia and Ole Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth, the attitude with which immigrants approach their new lives decides how…

Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” Most students, if not all, suffered homesickness. Students in the boarding schools would try and run away from the schools, but most were caught and brought back by the police. In the Indian boarding schools students would not see their family for several years. Some relatives would send countless…

University of Florida’s Wellness Center said parents and faculty described college as an idyllic time that involved few worries or responsibilities, but then explained that current college students describe the experience as stressful and frustrating.Trying to balance school, relationships and jobs for students can create an overwhelming amount of stress. Stress is sometimes essential to everyday life and can encourage beneficial pressure. An overwhelming amount of stress for a prolonged or…

doing something very positive; she accepts her situation and comes to terms with reality. She molts her old beliefs into something more mature, and she ends up breaking down in front of her parents and finds that she is not alone in her feeling of homesickness, and with that way her reacting is to cry and be happy about it. The event was the comfort of her parents and her self-realization of her situation, and the belief was that everything was going to be ok. Riley’s experiences heavily shaped…

culture, the student are more comfortable to learn and practice anything they desire. By the continuous learning of their culture, there are more connected to it, even though they are far away. By doing so, it reduces the chances of anxiety and homesickness. Cultural learning is one of the things that English immersion does not offer and that is why most parents like Ms. Tracy do not fully support it. Students should be able to learn their culture inside and outside of school, it is that one…