Super Homesick.

Homesick benchmark-

Just got out of class and on the way back from class I think I hit the first homesick benchmark at one week. Besides from the first day getting here, it has been fine. It’s fun here, lots to explore, and lots of places to go out. But it’s just not the same. I can’t just call up the homies (its about to go down) and go kick it. To be truthful, I don’t really have homies here. Just friends and acquaintances. Nobody that I would really hang out with on a nightly basis. I guess it’ll just take some time.

I miss calling the 7th Ave homies, the Burien homies, the beacon homies and the eastside homies to go chill, talk, and laugh with. No doors that are just push to open and no greetings with “Heyyyy” or “*%$@&” hahaha.

I miss ordering pizza at unknown hours of the night (no ragazzi here). I miss coming home to a warm house (still super cold here).

I miss going home to my parents whenever I wanted, just a 20 minute drive down I-5 and not a $1,500 flight to the other side of the world.

I miss the food at home, rice with soy sauce and some chicken never sounded so good. Or congee with Chinese doughnut, or Mike’s Noodle house (Peter Phung), or pho from the Ave, or just a huge Caesar salad from Costco.

I miss unlimited texting, internet and phone. I miss ESPN, no college basketball, didn’t even get to watch the football national championship game, no NBA (!!), and I really hope I get to watch the Australian Open (Federer and Murray!).

I miss a nice bed, a big bed and a nice pillow.

I actually miss reading books in English.

I miss my house, my parents, my sister, and the rest of my family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc). I miss hearing Chinese and talking to my grandma.

I miss taking long showers, long hot showers (5-8 minutes here).

I miss my xbox and 2k9 (Eric Liang, Tony Duong).

I miss the IMA and basketball. No hyperdunks here, I only brought runners, I’ll show them how it’s done.

I actually miss working at Best Buy. The discount, the coworkers, the BS sales.

I miss everything about home.

Hopefully it’ll get better from here. It’s Friday while I’m typing this and I don’t even have the inkling to go out tonight. I can’t just text some people and be like “what’s good tonight?” or reply with “I don’t know, you know of anything?” Maybe going out will remedy my homesickness, maybe not. I’ve made some friends apart from the ones I already had coming over but we’ll see who, if anybody, will become a homie.

Have fun at home, and as Dave Chapelle would say, “keep it real”. Hope to talk to you all soon.