Comments on: Homesick http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:31:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: Katharine http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Katharine Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:48:28 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/#comment-198 All I can tell you is that they'll miss you just as much as you miss them. My best friend is away at the moment and I'm missing him like crazy. Doesn't mean I'd suggest he gives it all up to return back to England even if I want him to. Why don't you see if you can't recreate a bit of England there?? I know Barcelona isn't as far from the Uk as Namibia but when I was staying with a host family there and missing England I persuaded my host family to have traditional afternoon tea with me - scones, jam, tea, cream etc - to make me feel more at home. We all enjoyed it in the end but I think they quite fancied the plane back to England more than me at the end of it :) All I can tell you is that they’ll miss you just as much as you miss them. My best friend is away at the moment and I’m missing him like crazy. Doesn’t mean I’d suggest he gives it all up to return back to England even if I want him to. Why don’t you see if you can’t recreate a bit of England there?? I know Barcelona isn’t as far from the Uk as Namibia but when I was staying with a host family there and missing England I persuaded my host family to have traditional afternoon tea with me – scones, jam, tea, cream etc – to make me feel more at home. We all enjoyed it in the end but I think they quite fancied the plane back to England more than me at the end of it :)

]]> By: Rachie http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Rachie Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:13:54 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/#comment-191 Nicki - oh, how I've tried to tune into Radio 2. I miss Jonathan Ross most of all (sorry Mum), but my proxy server won't allow it. Darn it. I may try the candles though. I'll see if I can find some real ale scented ones. Mel - TV - you mean there's TV at home? Wow. I've got to the state these days where if I see a TV in the room, I'm mesmerised by it even if it isn't on. I keep up with the soaps by reading about them in heat (although here they're all crap, like 7 de laan, and When You are Mine). I'm going to be unmanageable when I get home. Piu Piu - yep, you're right. I'd kick myself. Nicki – oh, how I’ve tried to tune into Radio 2. I miss Jonathan Ross most of all (sorry Mum), but my proxy server won’t allow it. Darn it. I may try the candles though. I’ll see if I can find some real ale scented ones.

Mel – TV – you mean there’s TV at home? Wow. I’ve got to the state these days where if I see a TV in the room, I’m mesmerised by it even if it isn’t on. I keep up with the soaps by reading about them in heat (although here they’re all crap, like 7 de laan, and When You are Mine). I’m going to be unmanageable when I get home.

Piu Piu – yep, you’re right. I’d kick myself.

]]> By: piu piu http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/comment-page-1/#comment-190 piu piu Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:23:07 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/#comment-190 yeh, you know if you came home you'd wonder what you missed after all... it is hard. but what an awesome experience! chin up! x yeh, you know if you came home you’d wonder what you missed after all…

it is hard.

but what an awesome experience!

chin up! x

]]> By: mel http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/comment-page-1/#comment-188 mel Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:47:25 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/#comment-188 home's not that great you know.. all there is on tv is big brother or celebrity love island.. whoops, that might be too enticing. gulp. so, let me think quickly of some terribleness. this week, the streets of east london are covered in ash and bits of paper after a paper factory exploded in bow on wednesday. nice. lovely for the littl'uns lungs.. seriously though, i think you need to follow marcus's strategy of breaking potentially difficult periods into manageable chunks, rather than focusing on 14 MONTHS which does seem a long time. take it a month or two at a time sweetheart. home’s not that great you know.. all there is on tv is big brother or celebrity love island.. whoops, that might be too enticing. gulp. so, let me think quickly of some terribleness. this week, the streets of east london are covered in ash and bits of paper after a paper factory exploded in bow on wednesday. nice. lovely for the littl’uns lungs.. seriously though, i think you need to follow marcus’s strategy of breaking potentially difficult periods into manageable chunks, rather than focusing on 14 MONTHS which does seem a long time. take it a month or two at a time sweetheart.

]]> By: nicki http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/comment-page-1/#comment-187 nicki Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:27:44 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2006/07/13/homesick/#comment-187 Try doing a little make believe. Thats what I do. Tune into Virgin Radio on the computer, find something with an English smell (isn't that what candles are for?)close your eyes and pretend you are at home! Try doing a little make believe. Thats what I do. Tune into Virgin Radio on the computer, find something with an English smell (isn’t that what candles are for?)close your eyes and pretend you are at home!

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