Gemma Spake

And because of that unconscious belief, like you can kind of let loose and have a fantastic time.

Like you're exploring, you're meeting new people, like you're trying new foods.

You'd see the Eiffel Tower.

I don't know, like you're going out all the time.

You're trying on a new version of yourself.

And it lulls you into like a false sense of security of like, oh, I've avoided homesickness altogether.

Like I really just got into the thick of it.

It's always going to come, whether it's for a minute, whether it's for a month.

I found this when I moved to London.

Honestly, I was so naive.

All my friends were warning me.

They're like, you have to be prepared.

Like you think it's going to be shit at some point.

And I genuinely believed that I had avoided it.

Like after the first month or two, I was like, this has been easy.

And only at like three months time, like I was swiftly taken out.

Like it came for me.

The way that it comes to every one of us.

And the first wave of homesickness, this wave that I'm definitely experiencing right now is often the worst because

Again, you've been lulled into this idea that you're fine.