It was so interesting to read about the meaning of home from a variety of different perspectives. Some of my peers had ideas that related really closely to mine and others had really unique ideas that I have never even considered. The blogs I read were from Sarah Afful, Gaby Rienhart, Maya Sumel, Claire Taylor, Navid Yazdani, and Brenda Druhall.

Similarities among all of the blogs:

• Lots of us talked about wanting to move out of a small home town because of various reasons. Sarah Afful talked about how in the beginning Nina thought of her small home town as “repressive” (Afful, 2020). Personally in my blog I exclaimed that I was getting “bored of going to the same restaurants, and shopping at the one mall” (Scharf, 2020).
• Maya Sumel and Gaby Rienhart both talk about how home is not always with your family it can sometimes be with friends or others that you have “soul-level connections with” (Rienhart, 2020).  Maya Sumel similarly says in her blog post “But home does not have to mean you are with your family. Home can be with your loved ones too, or even on your own” (Sumel, 2020).
• Brenda Druhall discusses homesickness and how she has to overcome homesickness in Vancouver and eventually she starts feeling that Vancouver is her home (Druhall, 2020).  Homesickness is something I touched on but did not go into depth in my blog, but I feel that we both had similar feelings when it came to moving to another place and slowly becoming less homesick and the new place becoming your home.

Differences among all of the blogs:

• Sarah Afful and my blog post differ as we both had different feelings about how a loss of a family member effects our perceptions of home. Sarah Afful says in her blog post how “there is something about losing a parent that makes you feel like you’ve lost a piece of home” (Afful, 2020) and how when Nina losses her father she feels that “If dad was gone than it definitely couldn’t be in that town that dressed her” (Afful, 2020) . I whole heartily agree with her statement but when I went back and looked over my blog post I saw that I interpreted my loss of my Father and the connection with my home a bit differently. In my blog I explain how when I lost my Father I feel like my connection with my home became stronger as my relationship with my mother and sister grew and now this home I lived in was a vessel of memories of my father and I grew closer to the home (Scharf, 2020). 
• Navid Yazdani’s blog was very unique and different from the rest of the blog’s I read. Navid wrote about home being a physical place, Navid explains home is “a place where shutting the doors behind me gives me a feeling of shelter. Home is the feeling of locking out the chaos behind me, separated by just inches of building material” (Yazdani, 2020). I feel like Navid took the question in a very literal way but was still able to make connections and discuss home values and what they feel home is and what they look for in a home. I really enjoyed reading Navid’s as it was refreshing to read something that was unique.

Summary:

Here I will summarize all that I have learned from reading different peoples blog posts. Lots of us feel that we have to get out of our small town in order to  search for home. And lots of others feel like where your family is is not always where home is as sometimes home can be with close friends or others. When breaking out of our shells and moving around to find a place like home and people that make us feel like home we all often feel homesick but this does go away as we get more used to the new place and the new people we are living with. A loss of a love one can affirm our connection with home or send us to search farther for a new home. And lastly we should not forget that home is something that is literal as it is what protects us from the elements and we should be thankful that we are able to live in a home.

works cited

Afful, Sarah. “Dressed by my Mother” SarahAfful Just another UBC Blog site, 2 Feb. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/afful/2020/01/.

Druhall, Brenda. “2:2 A short story about home” English 372, 2 Feb. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/brendadruhall/

Rienhart, Gaby “The story of home” Explore Gaby’s Blog, 2 Feb. 2020,  https://blogs.ubc.ca/gabyliteratureexplorer/2020/01/28/the-story-of-home/.

Scharf, Sidney. “Assignment 2.2 Sense of home” Canadian literature, 2, Feb. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/engl372blog/.

Sumel, Maya. “Assignment 2.2” OOH CANADA!, 2 Feb. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/mayasumel/.

Taylor, Claire. “Assignment 2.2” ENGL 372 Claire Taylor, 2 Feb. 2020 https://blogs.ubc.ca/clairetaylor/

Yazdani, Navid. “2.2-A WARM HOME” CANADIAN STUDIES, 2 Feb. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/nyazdani/