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A tiny bit more homesickness: The Casa Loca
By Caitlin | January 24, 2010
I don’t tend to get homesick. Really. I make friends easily wherever I am, and while I will always miss specific people who are important to me, I don’t get homesick or lonely very often.
I guess I am a bit out of my element right now, because I am too busy in my course in Mexico City to really take my usual steps towards making myself at home. I get up at 8am, get to school at 9:30, start class at 10, finish at 5, and then go home and do homework until I go to bed. This is fine, because I know this course will help me support myself abroad. But for right now, I don’t really have any time to make new friends or get to know the city, and that sort of stinks.
I went for a walk today, and I found myself missing Xela. Part of it’s just the feeling of community: really, I can’t walk down the street in Xela without running into at least a few people I know.
Mexico City is the complete opposite: total anonymity. Now, this is very refreshing in some ways, but as I don’t know anyone right now, it’s a little overwhelming.
I’m sure that once my course is over and I have the time, I will find a home for myself here or wherever I get a job in Mexico. Right now, though, I miss my friends in Xela. In particular, it’s hard not to miss the house where I lived, the aptly named Casa Loca. Usually 7-9 people of us in the house, it was at different times fun, annoying, crazy and family-like. However I felt, it was impossible to be lonely.
In with the old, out with the new. Two new roommates get baptized into the house:
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