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Cringe
Home sickness attacks me when I am gone for only a month.   {{{{HUGS}}}}   Hope you are feeling better tomorrow.

posted by TAPS. on August 21, 2007 at 7:46 PM | link to this | reply

Cringe
I agree with Nautikos just relax and know this is a part of it. Know you are welcome and that you are missed at home as well.

posted by Justi on August 21, 2007 at 7:42 PM | link to this | reply

That's definitely to be expected when you're so far way from home and everything you know. And we all need a good cry now and then. Maybe you should write down the things you DON'T like about home to make you feel better. Or better yet, just send me a plane ticket and I'll gladly go check it out for you to make sure you still remember it correctly.

posted by Holy_Grail on August 21, 2007 at 3:45 PM | link to this | reply

Cringe

Find a nice Irish pub and have a Guinness,  !

Seriously though, I can understand it, I think it's an inevitable reaction! And it will take a while until you think of where you are now as 'home.' And maybe that will happen only when, after a few years, you go back for a visit, and find that it isn't any longer what it was, that your imagination remembers it differently...

posted by Nautikos on August 21, 2007 at 2:21 PM | link to this | reply

Don't look out the window.

posted by FactorFiction on August 21, 2007 at 11:37 AM | link to this | reply

I found I was very nostalgic when I was in the USA for a spell, but
it's only an idealised version of home we become attached to. I know that coz when I went back home I hated it! It sounds like you're enjoying things on the whole.

posted by Antonionioni on August 21, 2007 at 11:25 AM | link to this | reply

Sorry, Cringe, the extreme bout of homesick will soon fade a bit,
but home is always in the back of your mind, the longing to see it is there somewhere under the busy-ness and clutter of the here and now. Take out the album, look at the pictures and wallow for a few minutes.

posted by Pat_B on August 21, 2007 at 4:19 AM | link to this | reply