Home

"Home is wherever I'm with you."

There is a place that we all call home. Somewhere where we feel comfortable and safe. Somewhere we recognise. It is the place for most where you know you can always return. A place where you have lived, loved and made so many memories in. 

My home was where I did the majority of my growing up. I became an older sister in the first couple of months of living there and that is probably the first memory I have of that house. I don't remember the first Christmas, or the first day I stepped through the front door. BUT I do remember standing in the 'then' kitchen and hearing that I had a baby brother. Funnily enough I was sad because I wanted a little sister... (I LOVE my brother now though!)

Its true what they say, "Home is where the heart is".  So many things make up what is in your heart. Good and bad. The bad being things like watching my Mom fall out of the loft and breaking her arm, or being told off for staining the carpet, or being told that my Grandma had had a stroke. The good being everything else (basically too much for me to list..). The majority of my memories in my home are happy ones which I am so thankful for.  

At uni I am far away from home and I know I am not the only one that misses it, I am sure that everyone does. I like being somewhere different and being independent. I like being able to walk down to the beach, I like being able to walk everywhere actually. I like that the air smells different and that the scenery is different when I look out my window. I like the people I am living with and I like the atmosphere here. However its not HOME. I miss the roads and knowing exactly where I am or where I am going. I miss how cold it is compared to here in Bournemouth (NEVER though I would say that). I miss the accent. I miss my own bed. I miss seeing my family everyday. I miss my friends... The list could go on!

I accept that where I am living at the moment for uni will never be the same as home because the people that I associate with home aren't here with me. But over the past year I have made a lot of new friends and I am starting to see familiarities of the places and streets where I wonder. I hope that the next few years that I am here for will help me realise that I can adapt to new places and enjoy the freedom of not living at home!