Writing: Homesickness

For my writing group I had to write a piece on Homesickness, and it had to be 250 words and no more. Here is my piece. For some reason I wrote it in third person:

Jo Anne never wanted to leave Ireland, she was a home bird. She didn't like her home town but she felt scared about leaving her parents who were her safety net. However, she went to Sunderland for University, but every Sunday she suffered from a severe case of homesickness. She missed her Mum’s Sunday Roasts! This Sunday homesickness continued all through University life despite the fact she had friends to be with. She still missed home, she missed her cat.

After University she moved to London and the homesickness stayed with her, she felt alone in the big city and just wanted to be at home, she dreaded Sundays. After time she found a good church and Sunday’s began to look up, she had people to go out for lunch with. This was a good thing yet the homesickness still haunted her.  The question always on her mind was, why do Sunday’s make me feel so homesick, what is it about them?

This unwanted feeling of being homesick on Sundays followed her to Peru where she lived for a year. However, for the first few months she felt homesick on other days, not just Sundays, because she felt like a fish out of water at times. She was homesick for Ireland and London. After time, homesickness just hit on Sundays, these were the hardest days, and she just wanted to be with people who knew her and who spoke English!  And now back home in Ireland, she is homesick for Peru. Ironic!