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Homesick

This morning I realised that I´d been in Peru for six months. Yesterday I realised that I might be going through my first(?) pangs of homesickness.

That’s not to say that I haven’t been missing things. I’ve pestered friends about how I was suffering from the absence of good music and clubs, decent newspapers and books and the like (as well as them of course). I recently posted on Facebook that I´d been feeling Big Chill envy (which a friend told me, relatively fairly, I wasn’t allowed to have on account of my hanging out with dolphins in the Amazon).

It’s just that in the last week, things have got a whole lot more…well…pathetic.

Exhibit One
Saying “Let’s go” after finishing Tuesday’s breakfast had me musing wistfully on how much my Chinese neighbour’s cute kids would have grown. (“Letty go!” was their way of demanding I came out to the back yard to play with them.)

Exhibit Two
On Wednesday I emailed one of my closest friends who’d been rubbish at keeping in touch to effectively order him to email back. He did. Well done him.

Exhibit Three
The sight of a relatively black cat prowling around the bar last night started me pining gently for our house’s own very black cat, Lucie. There wasn’t a great deal of resemblance between the two, as cats here are generally ugly, scrawny things. I was clearly just being a saddo.

Exhibit Four
In my Spanish class today, I caught myself trying to describe in detail the topography of Sheffield (I stopped just short of an extended explanation of the steepness of Conduit Road).

Exhibit Five
Our friend Ruth’s fiance called her while we out having a drink a short while ago. He was on his way back from Fabric, and had been disappointed that there wasn’t any drum’n'bass. “Oh no,” I said, “There’s no drum’n'bass tonight” and proceeded to explain exactly who had been playing in each room. Helen stared at me. “I’ve never been to Fabric,” I sighed.

In short, I’m a soppy mess. It’s doubtless largely due to a week which has involved frustrations at work and with a variety of technology (turns out it’s difficult to get replacement electronic parts in the middle of the jungle). Just a blip then, but maybe a blip worth sharing.

Friends, family, former colleagues, festivals and possibly Fabric: I’m missing you all.

Along with steep roads, apparently.

2 Comments »

1. 

   I’ve always thought that cat was Lucy not Lucie?
   PS To add to homesicknes you missed out on probably the best Big Chill yet…

   Comment by Ali — August 16, 2009 @ 11:31 am

2. 

   Pretty sure it’s Lucie, though I didn’t name her tbf.

   ps. You’re a meanie. Glad you had fun though.

   Comment by tom — August 19, 2009 @ 8:33 am

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