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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What do you do when you're homesick?
I watch classic TV shows like the Fresh Prince or British costume dramas like Pride and Prejudice and spend extortionate amounts of money on cheese.
What do you do?
Do you mean the 1995 BBC TV series Pride and Prejudice? That's one of my favourite things ever.
I don't get homesick, but I do sometimes feel despondent about the state of things (various aspects of China). On such occasions I also watch TV series (though as homesickness isn't the problem they don't have to be old, familiar ones) and gorge on whatever food is at hand.
humbug:
Yup, the TV series not the movie with Keira Knightley although that wasn't bad...
Ummm i go home? If thats out of the question i go to HK for a night or two. That always refreshes me.
ScotsAlan:
Yeah Royce. You need to get up early in the morning the day before you get there if you want to get the train.
I'm like Samsara in that I don't get homesick. But I do miss my family though. Hmm...perhaps that's the same thing..
In any case, what I do get every so often is an urge to get out of China for a break.
And that's the urge right now that's driven me to the fridge and to sit down and watch something that calms my mind and soothes my soul.
I'm about to drink lots of beer and watch 'The Pink Panther'.
And 27 days later I'm gettin the hell outta here...
I usually start counting the days to the next trip back.
The problem is that I'm chronically sick anyway....
I am home. If I get "previous-home-sick" then I might have a beer from home or other comforts that is either sold here or sent by well meaning people.
I have no attaches back home except my parents and I have been living away for so long and in so many countries that I just don't get homesick anymore.
I used t get home sick after 3 days on vacatiions, rarely had fun, not so much any more. I have never wanted to leave China. I usually stay up on my last night, but I really miss my dog. She goes almost every where with me.
I read the news from back home, write my family and friends, skype, watch American movies. I don't get home sick so much anymore since I grew up going to sleep away summer camps and traveled a lot. However I feel I will always have a part of me that will miss friends and family back home and being with them.
I read the news from back home, write my family and friends, skype, watch American movies. I don't get home sick so much anymore since I grew up going to sleep away summer camps and traveled a lot. However I feel I will always have a part of me that will miss friends and family back home and being with them.
I read the news from back home, write my family and friends, skype, watch American movies. I don't get home sick so much anymore since I grew up going to sleep away summer camps and traveled a lot. However I feel I will always have a part of me that will miss friends and family back home and being with them.
I don't get homesick.
But I still post on a forum back home. Normally my posts are " Ehhh?. You what.... You don't know how lucky you are you sense on entitlement feckers !!!! "
Don't get homesick either.....China is home now.....though somedays it still feels a bit alien. Only things i ever miss is cool weather, luke-warm bitter and a decent bacon butty with lashings of brown sauce. I can sort of get the bacon and beer now......just need to find somewhere to escape to for a holiday where I can walk outside in a T-shirt and get goose-pimples from the cold chill on my arms!
humbug:
OMG brown sauce! I was stocking up like crazy on my trips home, then I found it on taobao!
Hotwater:
It's easy enough to get now in GZ, unlike decent back bacon. Found one shop recently that sells good bacon. Great for weekend breakfasts!
I spent a good part of my childhood abroad, and then again since my twenties. So I don't have much of a notion of "home" ^^ There are days where I'm in a bad mood due to life with Chinese characteristics. I run, I read, a good wine, a good restaurant, and that's enough to make it go on the short term. Long term... planning the escape ^^
Like several of the poster's mentioned, after years of living abroad, I don't get homesick anymore. I feel a familial obligation to see my parents from time to time, but, ultimately, the concept of home no longer exists for me. And I'm perfectly content with that.
Haven't gotten home sick. Too much fun to do in Asia.
Just the good taste of my own country food reminds me of my country back.
Then I cook some good food..
I usually get homesick after arguments.
I'll watch old TV shows and movies I brought with me on harddisk.
Actually I've gone through everything once already. Maybe time for another run of The Next Generation...? I should be careful, though. Too much Star Trek will have me remembering my homeland as some nostalgic utopia, which it isn't at all. Idealism and Star Trek have been out of style for years; even the reinvented action-movies are struggling. Before long, I'll be some grumpy old grandpa talking about the good old west with the same hypocrisy as local gov't mouthpieces glorify China!