I would like to go away this summer, but i am scared i will be homesick, and unable to interact with people?

I am in high school, last year i had to come home from summer camp because i was homesick, and i wasnt able to meet new friends and speak to people. This is weird because i have been going to sleep away camp all my life qand i never had any feeling like this until last year. This year i have the opportunity of a lifetime, going on a trip for 6 weeks in the summer. I want to go and have a good time, but how can i do it without being homesick, and how can i meet new people, and be friendly with them?I would like to go away this summer, but i am scared i will be homesick, and unable to interact with people?
To add to the above recommendations, maybe take some pictures of your family/friends as you go. Wherever you go, whatever you experience, imagine yourself sharing it with you at the same time. Some of them are going to envy you probably that you had such a neat experience. So, try to think about it too. That the next time you come back home, you will have plenty of things to tell them.

And each time you meet new people, try to picture those you left behind in their place. Remind yourself how comfortable it felt back home, and imagine yourself getting to know the new guys better, and having more fun with them when you become good friends. So to me, you can help yourself here by an extensive work of imaqination and visualisation that are meant to bring you into a more relaxed state of mind.

Hope that helps a bit. Good Luck.I would like to go away this summer, but i am scared i will be homesick, and unable to interact with people?
Look and picture all the positive points in your mind and be realistic too......No : you probably will not get with everybody....but maybe you will form friendship which will last a long time.

It is also preparing you for life you know. At some stage, everyone will have to go their own way and be independent.

Just see it ';as a test';.....not too seriously and remind yourself that you will be home again.....not gone forever.

And if you actually speak out to some people you meet and trust about your feelings : you will feel a lot better !

Sometimes accepting one's limitations are freeing oneself you know.

Good luck and please try to enjoy yourself ......and many will be like you !
i am the same way i am so homesick that i dont want to stay at the dorms, which is silly i know, but i totally agree with the previous answer, we have to let go someday b/c our family isnt going to b there for us all the way its sad but true n a fact!!