A shared sense of a FRESHER!!!!

Dear Former Motlagae (Me)
I write this letter to tell you how excited I am that you are finally coming to Rhodes after all, I hope that the preparation of your tertiary arrival is going well.

It was at the café on campus where a couple of first year students and I were talking about how first year is so complex and challenging. The most challenging aspect of coming to Rhodes is homesickness, homesickness can be a very cruel feeling that makes you feel like packing all your stuff and getting on the first plane to Johannesburg. I must tell you that coming to a foreign province that is miles and miles away from home, where you know no one but yourself at least you think you know yourself at that time before getting challenged with all the freshmen obstacles. Homesickness is one of the obstacles that you will face in first year, feeling like not seeing anyone, not getting out of bed and all that runs through your mind is getting home and staying there – not coming back to the foreign province where everything seem so nice but actually not nice if it is 16 hours away from home.

I must say when you first arrive at Rhodes you are overwhelmed by everyone trying to make you feel home the new environment where you start all over again and become whoever you want to be and what people already know you to be, but when homesickness strikes in your world becomes cold, lonely and feeling depressed. However you are a free spirited and outgoing person who adapts very easily to new places and makes friends quickly. We will be together far away from home just like we always imagined that we would study far away from home.

xoxoxo
LoveMolly