Home isn’t just a place you live in.

Home isn’t just a place where you live. You can't just buy a house and call it your home. You need to feel safe, happy, and so much more in your home. A home isn’t just a building you buy; it’s what you make it. Like the saying money can’t buy happiness. A house is a building, but a home is a playful warm place. At home when it's quiet there’s something wrong, because I have four siblings! My home is a place where you can always hear laughter and joy. Home is a place where memories are made. One of my memories is when I got my first bike. I remember my dad teaching me how to ride it. A home can be anywhere you feel safe, loved, fun and more. For a bird, home might be a forest. As for me I've lived in three countries. I had a house in Oregon, United States of America, a house Yokohama, Japan with my grandparents, a student housing in downtown Winnipeg, and now a townhouse in Charleswood. In each place that I lived I had a space that I called my home. Even in Bogotá, Colombia, where my dad's side of the family is from, even though I have never been. I still call all these places my home. Each time I moved, I was not leaving my home, I simply left behind a house I called home. Home came with me wherever I went because home is not just a place, a space, or a location, it's a feeling. A feeling of love, comfort, positivity, fun, happiness and familiarity, even in Colombia where I’ll go some day. This feeling I am filled with when I look at the smiling faces of my friends and family, all across the earth.