Home Sweet Home

When you get home that sigh of relief, the day has pulled your spirit out of your body, but once you step a foot in your house, you feel the warmth throughout your body. Home is more than a house. It's a place you sleep at night, where you feel safe and have a sense of security. It's amazing that there is a roof over your head that protects you from falling weather. Home is my favourite place. It's where you'll see yourself grow when the years go by. Each year you grow an inch, so you mark your growth on the wall. You can smell the marker when you draw a line on the wall so you can look back in time. You can create your house, but not all people are able to, but everyone creates their home. Whether it’s culture, personality or language, anybody can have a home. It could be you, me, anybody and everybody. As long as you carry your home in your heart. At my home you see dog hair around the house, and you hear my dads music blasting the sound of rap in the background. The smell of air freshener and food. You hear my dog barking, and some random person outside and my mum's sewing machine in her room. The light beige walls with family pictures and random holes in it, and the haunted basement. Not all things are the best at home. For example, arguments or disagreements, but one day, you will go back to talking again. Sometimes you feel excluded from different societies or places, but home is what you make it, you are allowed to feel those emotions. You may feel sad or angry sometimes, but doing the things you love which might be at home, can make you feel better. I mean I like doing art, reading, writing and playing basketball in my basement. There is one thing I know for sure, to be grateful it's very important, to be grateful that you have a home or a roof over your head. It's very easy to complain, I know, I do that a lot, but somebody worked hard for this. It could be you, your parents, anybody. Well, there are a lot of things you can be grateful for: food, a house and a home with memories. Sometimes you just have to look on the bright side of things. I have to say my home has 2 different languages English and Spanish but mostly English. My dad is El Salvadorian and my mom is Indigenous (Ojibway and Cree). We have the average celebrations, but on Christmas, we celebrate it at 12 am, the way my dad celebrated it when he was a kid. Every home has some culture in it, and some of your personality. What's your home like?