10 THINGS I MISS ABOUT ENGLAND
* People that get sarcasm. It's wasted here!
* Sunday roasts
* Topshop (I know this is Materialistic, but I don't give a Dam)!
* Goggle box ( I can't believe I just admitted to that)!
* Purdey's vitamin drinks ( I have addiction to them and right now the cold turkey isn't feeling good)!
* BBC radio 6 music
* Queuing! Some one pushed in front of me the other day in H&M! Do they not know how much that annoys an English person? We love a good orderly queue!
* People understanding everything I say all the time and not everything being lost in translation! Actually I take that back, as no one understands what I'm saying back home half the time and their English.
* Being able to find a good avocado (first world problems)!
* My friends and family.
So now I need to counteract that with with 10 things I like about Romania
10 THINGS GOOD ABOUT ROMANIA
* It's cheap!
* It doesn't rain that much!
* Everyone is nice. Well apart from one person who actually just one of the most evil people I Have met!
* The bread is good!
* It's cheap! Shit I've already said that one!
SORRY THATS ALL I HAVE TO GIVE, ROMANIA RIGHT NOW.
"Mum! Something terrible has happened!"
I'm face timing my mum for like the second time that week! She's in shock! I never contact my family that much. It's not that I don't love them: I do lots! It's just that I've always been very independent. I'm Carly the lesser spotted. A sighting, or a call is a rarity.
"I'm homesick!" I say.
"Oh my God!" Is her response.
At the age of 36, the girl that has travelled most of the world on her own, with never thinking about coming home; and who is fiercely independent, is home sick for the first time in her life and it's a horrible feeling! I remember when people use to tell me they were home sick when I was travelling. I would look at them weirdly as I could not emphasise with them as I'd never had this feeling. I always thought they were weak. Now I take back that view, because it's one of the worst feelings I've ever experienced. It's like a constant nausea and discomfort. I can't sleep and my appetite has more or less completely gone. All I can think about is getting on a plane home. It's all come as quite a shock to me this feeling, and I don't know how to make it stop. I have days better than others but the feeling is always there.
To counter act my home sickness I'm try to make things as English as possible. I'm doing this by:
* Saying lots of English little phrases, which we have lots of. I'm also calling everyone love a lot (which is very northern thing to say)! Most of the time this is completely lost on everyone as no one else on the crew is English and there are mainly tumble weeds of silence.
* I'm watching lots of English TV as I've downloaded Astril which allows me to watch stuff probably illegally? (Life on the edge)! This means I can watch as much crap TV as I want (which we have lots of in the UK) and I suddenly feel completely at home!
* I'm finding I'm ringing a lot more uk companies for Enquiries than other countries, which means I can talk to English people and spend a lot more time on the phone talking to them than I should do about such crap like the weather and should we leave the EU? How terribly English!
CONCLUSION TO ALL THIS!:
I'm a idiot and just need to get over myself! As Scarlet O 'Hara famously said:
"After all; tomorrow is another day!"
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