This week I did not go to class because it was a really hard week for me overall. I've been going through it this quarter with my mental health and just getting more and more homesick as the quarter goes on. I love this class but it has gotten me to reflect a lot about my family and in particular my relationship with my parents that I treasure and just things that I have not fully talked to them about like the possibility of life without them. I live half way across the world from them and it gets harder and harder each day and when I don't get a chance to call them, I feel like a bad daughter at times. They gave up so much for me to be here, to be a first gen student and to let go of their first child, who they have had to protect for a long time both sides of our extended family who didn't approve of them being together. Having everyone talk about their parents and their grandparents was a lot for me to handle on that day in particular and I just felt like I couldn't be in class that day. Leena and Shivani were superstars that day as well because I told them about my situation and they were more than understanding about it and who covered for me during our scheduled current event presentation. I had worked on the material with them leading up to the day but with all of the emotional turbulence building, I just couldn't come in that day. I think I'm going to just spend the weekend talking to my parents and going out to eat food from home and hanging out with my brother to curb my homesickness in preparation for the next rounds of presentations and my own.
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May 2019
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