Dealing with homesickness in Czech Republic

Keeping in touch with your own culture is important. Every weekend I watch live rugby from New Zealand. Hearing the Kiwi accent makes me feel like I'm there,

Before I started doing this I was homesick, now homesickness is no longer a problem. I also read stories from home via the internet too.

Not many things from NZ are offered here, with the exception of wine and lamb meat, so if I want something from NZ I either have to import it, or get someone to send it. Things like pies and sausage rolls my wife and I make.

Learn the language ......

The key is to keep yourself busy somehow.

Go out and do some exploring, get to know the place and the people.

It may sound counter intuitive, but a good way to overcome homesickness can be to reduce contact with your homeland and culture until you adjust more fully to the one you're living in.

You can often aggravate and magnify feelings of homesickness if you try to contact home while you are homesick.