What Are the Best and Worst Things About Living Away from Home?

NATTIYA SONCHAI

What are the best and worst things about living away from home?

Living far away from home, even for a short period, can be fascinating, exciting and unforgettable, but at the same time it has vary effects on our life especially international students.

One of the positive effects is teaching us the precious lesson of grow up as a person. Whenever you step out of your home and approach to a new country, that means you have to say good bye the comfortable life and get into a life full of duties. You have to learn how to do things by yourselves, start worrying about every phase of our life, from vast parts to smaller tasks such as balancing my checkbook for not to be in the red. I have never done this in my country before. While I stay with my family, I don't even think about my balance because I am youngest in my family, so everyone tries to take care of me very well. They think, I'm still young for response payments by myself. I'm kind of not being aware to spend money. I mean, I just buy whatever I think it is so important things to me without considering the price carefully. But it doesn't work at here. Everything costs an arm and a leg. The price is totally different from my country. In fact, it charge me double price. Moreover, your independence behavior will grow inside of you. You have to organize your life and be responsible to your housework; cleaning the room, doing your washing up, or cooking your own meal. Being self-discipline and responsible will help you go through independence life and achieve it. For instance, at here (USA.), I can do whatever I want. No one will complain me as I stay at home. This is good for your privacy. You are able to wake up whenever you want to and come home at late night. No one will report you to your parents. Besides, you can decide every situations base on your thinking without arguing with your parents. However, the freedom can ruin the rest of your life if you can't control yourselves. It teaches you to recognize which one you should do, which one should leave it untouched.

In addition, you will learn how to accept another traditional and adept yourself to the new circumstance and exotic cultures since you are staying in different customs. You have to open your mind, accept with difference and set yourself to unknown condition. It doesn't mean you have to change your behavior or your point views to be a part of them but it means you should be flexible to unfamiliar society and accept others opinion and values.

However, living far away from home gives us not only pros but also corn. That is you will feel lonely and isolate from your relative and friends especially at the beginning. It is really top. You have to struggle with your loneliness which we call "Home sick." It doesn't look the big deal but it really causes a lot of effects to your emotion. It is sensitive feeling and grows up inside you. You will miss every moment which you spend with your family and your friends frequently. Such as sitting together on a sofa watching TV, or coming