I've just read one of the the warmest articles I've ever seen by Carmela Wilkins!
It showed celebrating of the American Thanksgiving in England among the multinational group of students. Carmela who organised an event and held it felt tremendously homesick and was worried weather the holiday can be successful without her family and the traditions they followed at home.I enjoyed the passion that one could notice reading of their otdinary Thanksgiving morning.The impression of chaos when you imagine all the relatives trying to cook wonderful dishes all together.
Carmela concentrates readers attention to on what the holiday represents showing on the example of her own family. They gether round the table and say what they are thankful for. I'm sure it's also important to know that Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the US which, according to popular history, follows the traditions of the first Pilgrims and Puritans, who were thankful for a good harvest in 1621.
The fact that on their wonderful dinner there were her friends all over the world with their traditional dishes shows that cooperation can help to overcome homesickness and make any event one of the most memorable in life
I think that's a real problem for the students to all over the world to feel comfortable while far from home. The article teaches to be positive about it and even highlight the possibility of learning many interesting multicultural things from people living next door.
Questions:
1. Have u ever felt homesick?
2 did you spend any of "family holidays" alone or not with family?was is fun?
3. What did you learn from a foreigner in your life?
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/nov/27/celebrating-thanksgiving-american-student-abroad
Well, I am an intenational student and I often feel homesick.Now almost all family holidays I spend without my family and closest friends. It hard but I always can speak and see them by means of skype. I always try to see advantages in any situation. I live in the domitiry, so I meet a lot of foreigner per day. But still I hardly manage to speak with them because of language barrier. But I definetly can say that foreigners teach me how to be patient and friendly with people who you don't know. They are smily and kind persons who are always ready to help. I think it's a very good quality. For example, in our domitry there is a Vietnam community. When a new student from Vietnam came to Tula, the head of community meets him (her) and help to adapt.
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