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Grex Inbetween Item 37: Home?
Entered by asp on Wed Apr 17 18:04:00 UTC 1996:

So here I am pondering the fact that after my four years away, 
it's time to go home... but is Ann Arbor really my home?  What
do you call home?  Do you feel like you have one, or is it just
whereever you're at?  I think this is especially important
for those of us who feel like they are "inbetween" generation-
wise, and thinking about transitions in schools, our lives,
etc.  So what do you think?  Are you home?

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by abchan on Sat Apr 20 01:32:06 1996:

I consider here my home.  In fact, it's gotten confusing.  People will ask
me where I'm from and the first thing that comes out is "Ithaca," and then
I say, "Wait, I'm not a townie.  I've just lived here for awhile while going
to school here."  In fact when I went to take my senior picture, they asked
for my home address and I started writing down my address here.  I call the
place I grew up in "my parents' home"

I'll be graduating too and going on to grad school.  So I'll have a new home
soon.  And I guess after awhile, I'll start to call that home too.

But honestly?  Home is where the heart is.  So maybe my home is sorta in A^2
even though I've been there no more than two weeks total.

#2 of 8 by scg on Sat Apr 20 06:02:00 1996:

I consider Ann Arbor my home  Localizing that to a particular place in Ann
Arbor is a bit harder.  I think usually at this poing I tend to consider my
apartment to be home.  I haven't moved all my stuff in here, but all my stuff
that I tend to use at all (that isn't in my office) is here, and it's the
place that I come home to every night.  I still sometimes consider my parents'
house to be home, but not that often.

#3 of 8 by carson on Sat Apr 20 12:53:39 1996:

Home will always be the not-so-little-anymore house I grew up in on
Newport Rd, even though I didn't do all of my growing up there, nor
have I lived there for a couple of years now.

Ann Arbor will always feel like home, because I grew up there. It's
where I learned to walk. It's where I learned to talk. It's where I
went to school, and made my first friends. It's where I would go if
I ever needed anything, even if it was something as simple as someone
to talk to.  It's where I learned to ride a bike, to drive a car,
to play pool. My life history begins with Ann Arbor.

#4 of 8 by mooncat on Mon Apr 22 06:28:23 1996:

Home isn't all in one place for me anymore...  Home is definitely
the house that I grew up in Midland, and is where my parents are.
A lot of my stuff is still there.. although many of my toys got
thrown out when my mom cleaned the basement (apparently they were
mostly moldy and funky so it's not a major catastrophe).  It just
feels like home, I go there and everywhere I turn I have some 
memory of event that happened there.

Home is also Ann Arbor where I have spent the majority of the last
three years.  This is where all my friends are, my adopted 'family.'
The family that I chose.  I can be myself more here then I can at
my other home, and I like that.  I don't have as many memories of
Ann Arbor, but I'm continually creating memories.  Ann Arbor had
many of my recent firsts- and will always have a place in my heart. :)

#5 of 8 by asp on Thu Apr 25 00:10:37 1996:

Hmm... I guess I have a lot of memories that are set in ann arbor
but my loved ones are so far distributed that when I am in any one
place, I always know that I am not withthem... 
I guess the real answer to my questions for me is that my
home is "everywhere an nowhere"... but if I dwell on this, I'll certainly 
get depressed...

#6 of 8 by scott on Tue Apr 30 16:14:15 1996:

Home is where I live, so it's been several apartments and other places.  

I don't miss family houses all that much.  Our familiy has had 2 in Ann Arbor,
after moving in from elsewhere.  I do tend to be attached to musical
instruments much more than houses.  I'd be really upset to lose my old bass
guitar, even though I have just enough typing problems to keep me from playing
it much.

#7 of 8 by asp on Tue Apr 30 19:56:15 1996:

Yes, I've foudn that I can adorn any space with enough stuff that it seems
like a "home" ...  I have more affection for my knick knacks than the house
where I grew up, though this was not always the case

#8 of 8 by eskarina on Sat Jul 20 22:12:12 1996:

Its not really the house I'm in that makes a place home.  Its walking into
the downtown area and seeing stores, seeing the people, how they walk and how
they dress.  I just spent 4 weeks away from Ann Arbor, and when I came back,
it came back to me how people talk, how (or if) they think, and generally how
they act.  The little nervous habits that I'm used to seeing on my friends.
That's what I felt I had missed out on.  I even sorta missed those annoying
radio DJs.  What makes it home are the little things about a place that stick
out to you, and that you can't get anywhere else.

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