Homesickness

time. Sharing a classroom with a bunch of other children with different personalities can be overwhelming. Additionally, your child is away from the comfort zone, you. This is enough to make any child develop a significant level of anxiety and homesickness. In order to help your child adjust to their new environment, there are a few things you can do as a parent. 1. Parent-Teacher Bond Before school starts, there is an open house. This is a time when parents and children get to come to the…

Joyce Meyer once said, “We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges”. The message behind this quote is evident throughout the short story “Extraordinary Little Cough”. The group of boys that decide that they are going to go on a camping trip and find themselves going through new experiences the entire time. “Extraordinary Little Cough” shows the journey of a group of friends as the set out on their first journey all alone. Throughout the short story, “Extraordinary…

Introduction Culture Shock refers to the unavoidable situation of being affected by the transitioning from a familiar culture to an unfamiliar one, experienced by people who work, live, or study abroad (Sheih, 2014). Every year students plan to study abroad and although they may read up about what they should prepare for and even try as they may to be prepared, it is inevitable that at some point they will experience culture shock as every student has before them. This is most particular to…

fellow sojourners. Four travelers became fast friends with Alan from Virginia to completion. Alan describes them as the most eclectic, craziest, friendliest, and genuinely good group of people who shared mud and fords, rocks and roots, pain and homesickness ever encouraging to the end. Traded tears anointed their embraces as victors celebrated the end of a life changing challenge. The author reflects, “When I began my journey, I thought about what the end would be like. As I got closer to Mt…

of going somewhere far away, spending hours zooming in and out of Google Earth, looking at the different places on Earth. “One day I head that I’m going to Australia, now, do I feel happy for having a great opportunity or do I feel sad for the homesickness that I know I will have there?” “I didn’t realise that I’m going thousands of miles away for almost the rest of my life from the place that I had never left for more than two months”. Dreaming about lifestyle changes, plucking up the courage…

com/CycleTraveller) for her two wheeled cycling and kayaking escapades that have lasted over 4 years in the project. In the interview she talks about her accomplishments on her bike “Hercules” and the distance she has traveled, as well as set backs, and homesickness. The world cycler, and world class rower, born in May of 1985, is of British descent, and is a motivational speaker, as well as the first woman, and youngest person to row across the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean from Japan to…

From waking up to the smell of freshly made tortillas and warm beans with rice on Sunday mornings and rushing through the morning to attend noon mass to the tradition of going from house to house singing lullabies to Jesus on Christmas eve, food and catholic tradition are just a small part of what being Hispanic means to me. While there are a multitude of distinct experiences that have guided me to rediscover what Hispanic truly means, I believe that everything can be simplified to family values…

her life. The narrator struggles between her sense of self versus the new environment. “I was no longer in a tropical zone and I felt cold inside and out…” (lines 44-45) the narrator shows the obvious signs of fear to the unknown and a sense of homesickness magnifying her struggles to the reader. She was lost and unhappy in her new environment. She appears to be closed off and unwilling to take in new feelings “because I didn’t want to take in anything else” (lines 14-15). Throughout the…

paint self-portraits? What did they typically depict? Kahlo’s pictures express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera’s occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad and her longing to feel that she had put down roots, profound loneliness. But they also declare her passionate love for her husband, her pronounced sensuousness, and her unwavering survival instinct. All her life she had…

American history once the white settlers arrived, as they often forced Native American tribes onto land with limited space and nourishment, and additionally brough disease that infected and killed many peoples and tribes. Further, in “Chapter Four: Homesickness,” Child accounts through the letters of the sadness, separation anxiety, and loss of sense of family and self that ensued among many of the student and families. Students were often far away from parents, so far that visitations were rare…