MISSING HOME. Quarantine is hard enough when you're not an international student legally unable to return to your home country. That's been Ohio State women's hoops star Dorka Juhasz's life these past few months, and she's starting to feel the pain.
Even though she uses FaceTime daily to connect with her father, Zsolt, mother Hajnalka Balazs and yellow Labrador retriever Jackie (named for actor Jackie Chan), it is not the same as being there.
“To be honest, it is getting a little worse,” Juhasz said last week. “Right after the season, it was bad because all my teammates went home and I couldn’t. Then it got a little better, but now we are getting closer to the end of summer and it is getting worse.”
There is homesick, and there is homesick without knowing when you can get home.
Juhasz hopes Hungary eases travel restrictions in early July, but even then she is not sure she wants to risk the possibility of leaving the U.S. and not being allowed back in for fall semester and the beginning of basketball.
Finding your footing on foreign soil does not make things easier. After two years in Columbus, the United States does not feel so foreign to Juhasz anymore, but it is not home. It is not her grandmother’s goulash or being able to hug Jackie around his neck.
“Sometimes I make chicken paprikash or Hungarian crepes, so I try to cook a little bit, just to not miss Hungary that much” she said. “But it is different from how my grandma or mom makes it.”
I feel you on the food, Dorka. I haven't been the same human being since I've lived outside of Skyline territory – though my arteries are probably in the process of crafting a "Thank You" letter.
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