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Well, when I was little I would go to camps and I would get
really homesick within a week or two. And then, I thought going
away to school would make it even worse 'cause that's a
longer period of time and I was in a different town. Going off
at PCC, I lived at home, so I wasn't living away from my family.
I guess what made it easy was living with friends that I've
known forever, so that made it a smooth transition. But, I
thought I would be really homesick going into U of O,
and I don't think it happened more than 2-3 times. So,
usually it went away for me.
I think just calling home I would talk to my parents every week.
I think that made it easy, and then I'd go home on the holidays,
on spring break, summer and all that. So, I think just
knowing that they told I always could go home whenever, and that
welcome back anytime. And, I had a good support system to go home
to, and then having friends at school made it easy too.
I think the second year I was there I joined a club:
Accessibility Student Union. We were are people with disabilities,
and so we'd get together and kind of worked what needed to be fixed
around campus to make it more accommodating and get the word out
there on campus. So, I felt like I had somebody else I could relate
to, but I had great friends all through college. And, one of
my close friends made friends with another friend of mine now,
but they were friends 'cause they used to be roommates, and now we're
good friends. So, it's just like a whole line of making friends.