{"id":91,"date":"2023-11-01T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/?p=91"},"modified":"2023-11-01T13:40:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:40:26","slug":"a-hawks-guide-to-homesickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/2023\/11\/01\/a-hawks-guide-to-homesickness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hawks Guide to Homesickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come down with a sickness that I can&#8217;t seem to get rid of and the only cure is to be home. Unfortunately, fall break is in three weeks so I&#8217;m trying to do my best to make it until fall break. Until then I&#8217;ve been using these tips to &#8220;cure&#8221; my sickness.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Packages from Home<br \/>\nThe best way to cure homesickness is to bring home to you. I&#8217;m very thankful that my parents can send little pieces of home. Recently, I got a package from my parents full of the comforts of home.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting with Christmas lights and plushies because my mom knows my love for Christmas decorations and the season as a whole.<\/li>\n<li>Haitian bread, peanut butter, and patties! This is easily my favorite part of the box because I love being able to have Haitian food so far from home. It makes it feel like I&#8217;m not too far from home even though I&#8217;m thousands of miles away.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, getting some of my clothes from home makes the adjustment better. Since the weather was getting cold, I was able to get more of my sweats, jeans, and thicker jackets so I could adjust to the weather changes from hot to cold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Trying New Foods from Other Cultures<br \/>\nIowa City restaurants have a wide variety of foods from different cultures that I haven&#8217;t tried before. Even though they are different than my own culture, it is easy to find flavors that remind me of home. Here are some of the restaurants I&#8217;ve tried so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taco Depot: Torta, a sandwich made with telera bread, filled with meat like beef and chicken, vegetables like cabbage and lettuce, and cheeses.<\/li>\n<li>Oasis: Falafel Pita Sandwich, a warm pita filled with chicken, hummus, Mediterranean salad, baba ganoush, and a falafel ball.<\/li>\n<li>Marsala: Chicken Biryani, basmati rice cooked with spices, herbs, chicken, saffron, and nuts. Mango Lassi, mangos, yogurt, and little cardamon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Being homesick definitely sucks but between getting packages from home and trying food from other cultures. I have also been able to talk to my family and friends which helps me feel more at home. Without them, I honestly don&#8217;t know how I would have gotten through homesickness so easily. Fall break is only 3 weeks away, so my home sicknesses is at ease for now. Next time I&#8217;ll be talking about preparing for midterms, see you next time!&lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come down with a sickness that I can&#8217;t seem to get rid of and the only cure is to be home. Unfortunately, fall break is in three weeks so I&#8217;m trying to do my best to make it until fall break. Until then I&#8217;ve been using these tips to &#8220;cure&#8221; my sickness. Packages from Home The best way to cure homesickness is to bring home to you. I&#8217;m very thankful that my parents can &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sylene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}