How to Cope When You Get Home

Coming home after all that adventure and excitment can make every day life feel like a bit of a drag. Here are a few tips to help you rediscover your love of home...

We know the feeling; you’re back home after having the time of your life, it’s cold and dull and everything is the same as when you left. You long for the sunshine and the sights and smells of new countries.

But never fear, help is at hand. With all the travelling we do, we’ve discovered a few ways to make you feel less nostalgic; you’ll feel like you’re still travelling – without even getting on a plane:

 

• Turn your power shower at home onto cold- nay- freezing when you get in each morning - alternatively replace it with a hose that dribbles only a little water so your hair will take at least twenty minutes to get wet.

• Have your little brother plant large unidentifiable creepy crawlies in your bed or shower when you least expect it- or in your shoes for a really pleasant start to the morning.

• Buy a mosquito net and make sure you tuck it in well at night.  Everyone will think you are crazy but when that lone moth gets in and annoys everyone else you will feel safe and secure under your net.

• Get everyone you know to catch the same bus as you thus re-creating the cramped and uncomfortable bus rides you are used to.  If no-one is free to help just stand on every journey, clinging on for dear life.

• Shops are 'into exotic foods' these days so ask your mum to buy the most weird and wonderful thing she can find then hide the labels so you have no idea what you are consuming.

• Haggle. OK, so Topshop probably won’t give you that top for £15 instead of £25, but you may find the odd bit of cheek gets you discount somewhere.

• Keep all your clothes in a backpack and make sure the one item you want to wear is shoved right in the bottom of the pack, also rotate the same three items for months at a time – hand washing them and drying them over the bath when they start to smell.

Sleep with 17 other strangers in your room and make sure they all suffer from sleep talking, walking and excessive snoring.

Now aren’t you glad you’re back?!

 

 

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