2025/Katie-

Home isn’t a place but where we get our experience. It is what makes us who we are today, and it is where we feel safe and comforted. Home is where we learn how we should display ourselves among the crowd. I’ve lived in Korea and America for around the same time. America is where I feel most comfortable and the memories of it are what I take with me. Korea is my culture and nationality that I would like to grow passionate about as I grow up.

Home is a feeling of familiarity, it can be anything such as family, friends, culture , or a physical house. Home for me is where I reminisce about most, where I think of my fondest memories who formed me into how I am now. America is the base of when I think of home and I take a little part of home with me in my memories. When I remember riding down the streets of my neighborhood, reconnecting with family who lived in America, and how I met some of my closest friends. Those are all experiences that I like to bring with me and think of it as home.

People’s actions reflect on their homes, it is where they learn how to act. I’ve lived in Korea for the earlier years of my life. I was born in Virginia. I still went to an American school,even after moving away from Virginiabut I still embraced Korean traditions during it. I was about 9 years old when I moved to America. It was much different than Korea, of course, but I didn’t let that take away my heritage from me. I still participated in Korean traditions and shared them with those who were curious. Korea is where I learned how to behave socially, and Korea’s culture is the piece of home I still hold onto.

There are many things you can take for it to be home, it doesn’t always have to be a physical object, but a thought. Every time you feel a sense of familiarity, that’s the feeling of home you experience. Everyone has a different form of home, but there is always something they can bring with them, even if they don’t realize it. Taking a part of home is something we all do.