{"id":35,"date":"2019-02-17T22:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ganssandraengl440\/?p=35"},"modified":"2019-02-20T00:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:55:01","slug":"comparing-homes-assignment-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ganssandraengl440\/2019\/02\/17\/comparing-homes-assignment-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Homes – Assignment 2:3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read at least 6 students <\/strong>blog short stories about \u2018home\u2019 and make a list of the common shared assumptions, values and stories that you find. Post this list on your blog with some commentary about what you discovered.<\/em><\/p>\n

First off, thank you to everyone who was willing to share an intimate story of home. Its very interesting to see the different ways people have grown up, and how they can connect to that point of their lives now in their adulthood.<\/p>\n

Reading through a variety of blogs it is very clear that many people believe that home is fluid and is always changing. Many people question what attributes to a home, and how someone can choose one place \u2014 often their parents home, over another \u2014 usually their current apartment. Ross Hilliam questions in his blog, is home \u201cwhere [he has] created the strongest memories, where [he has] been happiest, or where [he] simply [has] the most memories?\u201d. He comments how different names and relationships can be attributed to different places, and he also mentioned that he strongly believes that homes can change. I agree with this questioning and share similar sentiments in my blog post. Trying to decipher between my current apartment, my summer camp and my parents home, I too have asked these questions and think of my different homes in very unique ways. Similarly Dana Truhar spoke of multiple homes, as opposed to the feeling of one overarching one that one can definitely call \u201cmy home\u201d. She also comments on how a home is constantly changing. Another similar comment between Dana and I\u2019s blog\u2019s was that we both iterated that probably when we have a family of our own it will be different. As I expanded, I think our questions of home is highly due to the stage of life that we are in in university, because as the clich\u00e9 would go, we are currently \u2018trying to find ourselves\u2019 not form a home.<\/p>\n

Another similar sentiment I found in many blogs was the comment that home is a feeling, not necessarily a place. Cassie Lumsden spoke very well on this topic as she spoke of her and her family\u2019s immigration story to Canada. Rachel Teasdale also spoke on the topic well as she wrote that homes \u201cneeds to be accompanied by loving people, and that feeling of safeness\u201d. \u00a0Although it is not as drastic as Cassie\u2019s story, Rachel explains how her and her brother had swapped rooms, and the different feeling of home between the two rooms.<\/p>\n

Aside from the blog posts that are fairly similar to what I had wrote, there are two blog posts I find very unique which I can relate to, however were different from what I had originally wrote in my story. The first of the two blogs is Andrea Melton\u2019s, and the way she explained her home through her genealogy. I found this very compelling as I am an Eastern European Jew. So, when someone asks me where my family is from, that is how identify, not as Polish, Russian, or German, but as an Ashkenazie Jew. I feel as if I have no connection to those countries as my homes, even though its where my grandparents and some aunts and uncles were born and raised. (I mean you can probably infer as to why the Jew doesn\u2019t have a strong connection to Eastern Europe) So, the closest personal comparison to that comment \u00a0would be me seeing Israel \u2014 being Jewish and having the option of permanently moving there through the law of return<\/span>\u00a0,<\/a>\u00a0as a second home, and although many Canadian Jews do view Israel as their homeland, I do not.<\/p>\n

On a similar theme, I also found Alexis Long\u2019s blog post telling the story of her grandfather\u2019s connection to home in Canada, even though he was discriminated against very interesting and similar to my family\u2019s story. My grandparents and great grandparents immigrated to Canada not to long after Prime Minister Mackenzie King infamously said \u201cnone are too many\u201d. Many places in Montreal had signs that read \u201cno Jews\u201d well into the 50s and 60s. Alexis posed a question in her blog about how one\u2019s home can\/should be affected if they\u2019re not viewed as a citizen, regardless of growing up there, or having a good job and helping the economy. I found this comment very interesting because aside from the question of did my family feel as though Canada was their home when they immigrated here unwanted, I would wonder how my family felt with viewing these European countries as their homes during the atrocities of the Holocaust. As \u00a0both my grandfathers passed away either before I was born or when I was little, I was unable to ask them these questions, however my bubbie, that immigrated from Poland with her family when she was only a few months old, has explained that even though she lived in Montreal in Canada, her family still lived very similarly to the way in which they lived in Europe. They lived in a predominately Jewish community, ate kosher food, owned and would shop from Jewish-owned stores, and spoke Yiddish at home. She explained that they brought Europe to Canada, which I would figure would conflict your sense of home.<\/p>\n

I think the notion of home is interesting, and it is has been a very fun and compelling exercise to read and compare everyone\u2019s stories. Thanks!<\/p>\n

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References<\/span><\/p>\n

Truhar, Dana. \u201cAssignment 2:2 \u2013 My Home Story.\u201d 31 Jan. 2019, blogs.ubc.ca\/canlit470dana\/2019\/01\/28\/assignment-22-my-home-story\/.<\/p>\n

Teasdale, Rachel. “I\u2019m not meant to live alone, turn this house into a home.\u201d 28 Jan. 2019, blogs.ubc.ca\/rachelteasdale\/.<\/p>\n

Melton, Andrea. “Belonging Home” 28 Jan. 2019.\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/andreamenglish470\/2019\/01\/28\/22-belonging-home\/#comments<\/p>\n

Lumsden, Cassie “Home: The Family and the Familiar” 28 Jan. 2019.\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470blog\/blog-posts\/<\/p>\n

Long, Alexis “Blog 2.2: The Canadian Home” 28 Jan. 2019,\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexis470\/<\/p>\n

Hilliam, Ross “Home – Beautiful British Columbia” 28 Jan. 2019.\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rosshilliameng470\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read at least 6 students blog short stories about \u2018home\u2019 and make a list of the common shared assumptions, values and stories that you find. Post this list on your blog with some commentary about what you discovered. First off, thank you to everyone who was willing to share an intimate story of home. Its … <\/p>\n

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