homesickness

[red crayon]

i've just had a good friend stay with us for a week. she left on friday and i've had homesickness badly for the last couple of days.

does anyone else get homesick? what do you do about it? i hate feeling this bad.

[Pixie]

hmmm I try to focus on the good new things around me, it's hard I miss Aus badly :(

[red crayon]

thanks, pixie. i'm feeling better. i don't usually feel this bad.

you're living in london, aren't you? with the poo-ing dogs? whereabouts are you living?

[Kylles]

We've been away for 15 months now and I am yet to feel homesick, althought I miss a lot of things about Australia and the things that we had there that I can't get here. I do miss my family and friends but when it gets too much I just jump on the webcam and hook up for a chat and then I am fine. I guess that it helps that we have MIL and FIL living next door so I always have the opportunity to be around family.

But having said that I haven't had any visitors from back home for a while... that would probably be enough to set me off too!

Hope you feel better soon.

[Pixie]

:D ahh RC you made myself and my DP laugh so hard when we read about the pooping dawg!

Yeah we're currently in Kent staying with my sister and BIL, but we plan to move into London as soon as we can. Can't wait!

[red crayon]

ah, pixie, london. fantastic city! so much to do and see. how are you going with house/flat hunting?

aussie_swede - i've been here for almost two years and this is the first time i've been hit by homesickness. i think the combination of a close friend visiting and a dose of PMT set me off :o

[tru]

Whenever I got homesick living in London I would just visit the Aussie shop in Covent Garden or a Walkabout pub and mingle with some other Aussies. When those things are out of the question, maybe plan a trip somewhere to keep your mind off Oz and remember how exciting it is to be overseas and make the most of the adventure. Also, ask someone to send u a care package of your favourite Oz things. Mum sent me a big batch of Anzac biscuits - they were devoured by my flatmates within 2 days! I got a couple in too. It was nice to have some of the flavours from home again.

:hugs: from down under

[Pixie]

RC we are not sure where DP will work, it will most likely be with a big investment bank, so fairly central so far we have looked at Kensington and Chelsea.

What are you doing in Hanoi? DH's work? I can imagine life being very different there to moving to another western country.

Tru, I had a tim tam care package the other day, I never use to eat them lol but I ate them as they were Aussie, there's a walkabout pub near where i live should go eh!

[bechope]

I'm homesick and i have been away from home for 3 years.
I used to live in South Wales and moved to Australia to be with then Fiance.

I am even more homesick now as i am pregnant and my mum is over in the UK, and my sisters are there also so i have no one to talk to. It does get easier as time goes by but after 3 years of being in Australia i still get my moments. I hear a song or hear something that reminds me of home and i sit there and cry... I won't have time to be homesick after the baby is born. I'll be too busy LOL...

[MariaO]

When I get homesick I usually try and book a flight to somewhere so that I have a focus for the future.
I also try and remember that it will pass. Are you finishing up in Hanoi this year RC?

[red crayon]

to answer a couple of questions at once - we're in hanoi for my DP's work. he's working on an HIV/AIDS project funded by the aust gov't and yes we're back in melbourne for good as of july this year. i've had fun but i'm looking forward to going home.

speaking of tim tams, in my first year here i was ecstatic to find tim tams at the local shops. pfftt, they were made in indonesia and not the same as the ones in oz. very disappointing.

bechope - i can imagine that being pregnant is making it harder. it's a big event in your life that you want to share with your family and friends. i've been to cardiff and llundudno (sp?) - wales is a beautiful place.

[AOIFE]

Hi everyone im from Ireland and living here over 2 years the first year was so hard but since having my daughter i have felt more at home here still have my days when i wish i could see my friends and family .The way i look at it is i can sit here and cry about it or i can get out there make new friends and that is what i have done in the last couple of months and i don't have time now to think to much a bout home.
Good luck girls hope this helps.:babydust2:

[Emcee]

i left u.k when i was thirteen, because my parents wanted to move here to aus, such a bad age id say, ive been living in aus for 10years now and i still feel home sick really badly, whenever anything reminds me of u.k or from my childhood coz i was so young it really hurts like stabs into my soul or something i dont know but i hate it, i wish my parents never moved here im so angry that they did this too me, i can never get those years back or the experiances i couldve had and now its not the same anymore, its been nothing but bad stuff happning since we moved here, and i really miss u.k i dont think this feeling will ever go away untill i die. :thumbsdown: