Read at least 3 students blog short stories about ‘home’ and make a list of the common shared assumptions, values and stories that you find. Post this list on your blog.

Home changes.

History is home.

Home can be found in the most mundane things.

Home doesn’t always mean citizenship.

Memories is home.

Home is not a physical boundary.

Home is a state of mind.

Homes can be built, but there is always somewhere more special than the rest.

Based on Heather, Rajin, and Shamina‘s blogs, I came up with a list of common assumptions about the idea of home. All three of us seems to share a “home away from home” story in which home comes up as more than one place. While, yes, there might be a place more special than the rest, each place with a home label is different.

It’s less like this:

And more like this:

Each home we find in places, people, objects hold different memories. Like fruits, each one have a different purpose or usage. Apple pie might be better than strawberry pie, but strawberry-banana milkshakes might be better than an apple pie when you’re feeling thirsty. They’re all equally important, despite a preference for orange juice over apple.

Just like all your different definitions of home.