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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, August 16, 1999
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Martha Robinson, Tascon, Ariz., graduate student, plays her bapiipes on Wescoe Beach. She was practicing for the Scottish Highland games. Photo by Roger Nomer/ KANSAN
Remedies easily hide homesickness
Bv Lisa John
Kansan managing editor
Got the blues for home? Cheer up, it may get better sooner than you think.
Leslie Aust, a December 1998 graduate from Kansas City, Mo., remembers the pang of homesickness during her first days at college.
What helped was keeping in touch with old friends, as well as making new friends, she said. A social life took her mind off her sadness, too.
"I was in a sorority then and that helped a lot. There was always something to do," she said.
But soon, her homesickness disappeared, and then when her parents asked when she would be com
ing home, her response changed.
She laughed and said, "I'd say,
'Never! I'm out of there.'"
Andrew Beck, a Kansas City, Mo., alumnus, said when he first came to KU, it helped to call his sister, a student at the University of Missouri.
"I probably talked to her more than to my parents — she knew what I was going through," he said. But Beck's homesickness was short-lived.
"I had grown out of it by the end of my first semester," he said.
Kyungmee Choi, a graduate student from Seoul, Korea, found unique ways to alleviate her home-sickness.
"To cook my own food, ordinary homemade food that I'm used to, helps," she said.
Describing herself as a "joker," Choi said she likes to have fun with her friends — one in particular for whom she's come up with a nickname.
"I have a friend — he's American — but I call him a 'mongmong-ah' in Korean, and that helps," she said.
But what's a 'mongmong-ah'?
"It's a dog's bark," she said. Although her friend has since moved to another city, the joke lives on.
"I call him up and say how is my 'mongmong-ah', he be barks, and I bark back," she said.
"We laugh. You don't feel the loneliness when you're cheerful like a child."
- Edited by Rachel Johnson
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