Totally random

Ive not really had "absolutely homesick and just want to go back home" moments since I've got here, and I'm grateful for that. Being in another country can be very difficult and I know some of my friends have had that moment more than once. I have had moments of remembering something or the other from home and missing it, but they have been mild moments of homesickness if it can even be called that. I just call it moments of reminiscence. One moment comes to mind. I was in English, bored as usual and remembered a random moment I had with a cousin back home and started smiling. I don't know if any one noticed that I was smiling, but I guess they would have put it of as a "Sri Lankan thing" because the topic of discussion was nothing to smile about.

Yes, I miss the food (kottu, appa) and friends and family sometimes, but every one in college does. It doesn't really qualify in my mind as a desperately homesick moment. Tonight though, I had one. I was in the library, studying for a final and had some biscuits to munch on so that I would stay awake. I was doing good, covering a lot of work, when I bit into something with a distinct ginger flavor. Suddenly I was reminded about one of my aunts back home who I am extremely fond of and was desperate to talk to her. I don't know whether it was the ginger biscuit that triggered this, or it was random coincidence, but I rushed back to my dorm to call her, hoping that my calling card still had credit. I knew it would be early morning back home, but I didn't care.

Yes, my card had credit (don't know what i would have done if it didn't) and yes I woke her. I was relieved when she answered the phone. We chatted for a few minutes until my credit ran out. I was content when I put down the phone. The feeling that had initiated the call passed just as abruptly as it had hit me. I don't know what it would be categorized as, but that to me was a "absolutely homesick and just want to go back home" moment.