Anyone else have this experience?

nyxeos

So I am a Canadian currently studying abroad in the UK. My home sickness has been pretty minimal, since I still talk to people from home, and it's only for a year.
Today on facebook there were a number of posts by TSN on my feed about the World Juniors (hockey). I have never really played hockey, because my ankles are too weak to skate for very long. But I grew up in the arena watching my brother play, and if a game was on TV we were watching.
I'm now missing home not because I miss my family, my friends, my pets, my bed, but because I'm missing the hockey games.

I never realized how Canadian I was until I came here.

Seriously, they're complaining about how cold it is, and it hasn't even gone below zero.

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#2 - crazycommando (01/02/2014) [-]

dude i've lived in Vancouver for 4 years, and now i'm in the south of france

when we hit 10C* here everyone is like : oh my god it's freezing

bitch please this is a canadian summer
and i miss hockey as well as Canadian Football....so much

#27 to #2 - jaked (01/03/2014) [-]

I'm in Quebec now after living in BC for essentially all my life and I had the exact opposite experience with it being below -40 with wind chill here and finding out it's +8 in BC.

#14 to #2 - odinshomeboy (01/03/2014) [-]

Vancouver doesn't even really get cold, it's got one of the highest average temperatures in Canada.

#19 to #14 - crazycommando (01/03/2014) [-]

that as well is a good point

#1 - mudkipfucker (01/02/2014) [-]

#26 - lagingerninja (01/03/2014) [-]

Dude, we're brits. We complain about everything.

Cold weather - Complain
Hot weather - Complain.
I **** you not the weather forcast said we had a heat wave when it went to 25 Celcius for 1 DAY. They called it a MINI HEAT WAVE.

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#23 - failtolawl ONLINE (01/03/2014) [-]

who cares what temperature it gets, you still will be in your heated house on the internet, so shut the **** up.

#22 - sas ONLINE (01/03/2014) [-]

Sweden rapes you all

#24 to #22 - mephiblis ONLINE (01/03/2014) [-]

Sweden gets raped by all*

There, fixed that for ya.

#29 to #24 - sas ONLINE (01/04/2014) [-]

Let's see about that, my friend

#21 - stalagslag (01/03/2014) [-]

yeah I'm from Stanground but living in Dogsthorpe. People here can't deal with the cold at all.

#20 - rishnock (01/03/2014) [-]

I live in Florida, USA. It's like 50 Fahrenheit today. It's ******* freezing.

#16 - anon (01/03/2014) [-]

that feel bro i'm from Minnesota and living in Korea right now

#15 - xmacleodx (01/03/2014) [-]

Wow, they should come to Sudbury (In Ontario), with the windchill we just hit a -50 day

#13 - Sataria (01/03/2014) [-]

Well just think of this: It's been raining and snowing back home! and it's reached -40 a couple of times

#4 - feragon (01/03/2014) [-]

What uni are you doing your year abroad at?

#5 to #4 - nyxeos [OP](01/03/2014) [-]

Lancaster

#6 to #5 - feragon (01/03/2014) [-]

Is it a decent place? I study in Nottingham, but I am from Portugal, and my friend who studies in Lancaster visited me the other day and just wouldn't stop saying how crap Lancaster was in comparison. Apparently its cold (maybe not to you) and wet as **** .

#7 to #6 - nyxeos [OP](01/03/2014) [-]

I don't mind it. My only real issue is how far the university is from the actual town. I certainly don't consider it to be all that cold, like I said in the post haha. It does rain a lot though, but that's pretty common in the UK

#8 to #7 - feragon (01/03/2014) [-]

I moved over to the UK expecting a **** load of rain, but luckily Nottingham isn't tooo bad...my uni is also a bit away from twon, but there are really regular buses so its all good. What course are you doing?

I study Econ, and I was considering doing a semester abroad at UBC but I thought that if it was just the semester, although Vancouver sounds awesome, it wasn't really worth it.

#9 to #8 - nyxeos [OP](01/03/2014) [-]

We have regular buses too, but I'm cheap lol. Don't like paying the fare.

And I'm in English Lit and Creative Writing. Only time I've been in Vancouver is in the airport for a transfer to head up north to Prince George, I've heard really good things about the uni there. I'm from Ontario though, so my home school is there.

#10 to #9 - feragon (01/03/2014) [-]

£1 fare for us, so its not too bad haha

Almost did English lit, but I thought Econ would bettr suit my career objectives, not necesarily financial, but I really want to be able to move around globally with work. Kind of regretting the choice now that I have some ****** up exams in a few weeks, but oh well, such is life.

#11 to #10 - nyxeos [OP](01/03/2014) [-]

Nice. Ours is 2.40 for return, I think it's 1.60 for one way. I'm just used to it being free, since at my home school we get a bus pass with tuition.

And I like English, although it gets frustrating doing the same thing all the time knowing what I'm tested on won't relate directly to anything I do really. I plan on going into editing and publishing though, so it's what I gotta be in haha. And good luck with your exams